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| ddc332df | 1 | Broadcom brcmsmac (mac80211-based softmac PCIe) and brcmfmac (SDIO) drivers. |
| a9533e7e | 2 | |
| ddc332df | 3 | Completely open source host drivers, no binary object files. |
| a9533e7e | 4 | |
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5 | Support for the following chips: |
| 6 | =============================== | |
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8 | brcmsmac (PCIe) |
| 9 | Name Device ID | |
| 10 | BCM4313 0x4727 | |
| 11 | BCM43224 0x4353 | |
| 12 | BCM43225 0x4357 | |
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14 | brcmfmac (SDIO) |
| 15 | Name | |
| 16 | BCM4329 | |
| a9533e7e | 17 | |
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18 | Both brcmsmac and brcmfmac drivers require firmware files that need to be |
| 19 | separately downloaded. | |
| a9533e7e | 20 | |
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21 | Firmware |
| 22 | ====================== | |
| 23 | Firmware is available from the Linux firmware repository at: | |
| a9533e7e | 24 | |
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25 | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git |
| 26 | http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git | |
| 27 | https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git | |
| dd030874 | 28 | |
| dd030874 | 29 | |
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30 | =============================================================== |
| 31 | Broadcom brcmsmac driver | |
| 32 | =============================================================== | |
| 33 | - Support for both 32 and 64 bit Linux kernels | |
| dd030874 | 34 | |
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35 | |
| 36 | Firmware installation | |
| 37 | ====================== | |
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38 | Copy brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw and brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw to |
| 39 | /lib/firmware/brcm (or wherever firmware is normally installed | |
| 40 | on your system). | |
| 41 | ||
| 42 | ||
| 43 | =============================================================== | |
| 44 | Broadcom brcmfmac driver | |
| 45 | =============================================================== | |
| 46 | - Support for 32 bit Linux kernel, 64 bit untested | |
| dd030874 | 47 | |
| dd030874 | 48 | |
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49 | Firmware installation |
| 50 | ====================== | |
| 51 | Copy brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin and brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.txt | |
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52 | to /lib/firmware/brcm (or wherever firmware is normally installed on your |
| 53 | system). | |
| 54 | ||
| ddc332df | 55 | |
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56 | Contact Info: |
| 57 | ============= | |
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58 | Brett Rudley brudley@broadcom.com |
| 59 | Henry Ptasinski henryp@broadcom.com | |
| 60 | Dowan Kim dowan@broadcom.com | |
| 61 | Roland Vossen rvossen@broadcom.com | |
| 62 | Arend van Spriel arend@broadcom.com | |
| 63 | ||
| ddc332df | 64 | For more info, refer to: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211 |