Re: Broadcom 4328 Pre-N Wireless Device

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 22:49 +0000, Raab Nelson wrote:
> I really appreciate the help! I had to try four different windows drivers before I found one that enabled to device. Ended up manually setting the modprobe and its working!!! Yay!  Thanks again!

No problem.  The issue with pre-N wireless cards are that the firmware
and such is in a state of flux.  Once the standard is fully accepted and
the hardware makers stabilize their chipsets, someone out there will
probably come up with an open source driver.

This isn't always true, as some chip makers will not release their API
(TI being one of them).  There are reasons for that...misusing the API
may cause the chips to transmit out-of-frequency, or with a higher power
level or some other nefarious thing and the chip makers don't want to
be held liable for any damages that misuse may cause.

The nice thing about ndiswrapper is that if you can find a Windows
driver (and there's probably one on the CD that came with your machine),
you can use it under Linux.

> 
> Raab
> 
> BlackBerry service provided by Nextel  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>
> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:40:31 
> To:Getting started with Red Hat Linux <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Subject: Re: Broadcom 4328 Pre-N Wireless Device
> 
> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 14:52 -0600, Raab Nelson wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I am running 2.6.19-2911.6.5 on an x86_64 laptop.  I've gotten all the
> > devices installed except for the Pre-N Wifi card that came with this
> > guy.  I'm running the fc6 distro, do you all know of any
> > buildable/pre-build drivers for this device existing? 
> 
> No, I don't.  You could build ndiswrapper and use the Windows driver
> that probably came with your machine.  You can probably also get the
> driver from Broadcom's website.
> 
> ndiswrapper:
> 	http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Broadcom:
> 	http://broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/downloaddrivers.php
> 
> > 
> > Here's some lspci output:
> > 01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device 4328
> > (rev 03)
> >         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1366
> >         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> > ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- 
> >         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
> > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> >         Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
> >         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
> >         Region 0: Memory at b3000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
> > [size=16K] 
> >         Region 2: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=1M]
> >         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> >                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
> > PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) 
> >                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
> >         Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information
> >         Capabilities: [e8] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+
> > Queue=0/0 Enable-
> >                 Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000 
> >         Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
> >                 Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0,
> > ExtTag+
> >                 Device: Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited
> >                 Device: AtnBtn- AtnInd- PwrInd- 
> >                 Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal-
> > Unsupported-
> >                 Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
> >                 Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes 
> >                 Link: Supported Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s,
> > Port 0
> >                 Link: Latency L0s <4us, L1 <64us
> >                 Link: ASPM Disabled RCB 64 bytes CommClk- ExtSynch-
> >                 Link: Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1
> >         Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
> >         Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
> >         Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number
> > 1a-00-06-ff-ff-73-5a-7a
> >         Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting 
> > 
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