On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:38:24PM +0300, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Anyone using Linksys WPC54G adapter? I'm getting this to dmesg on 3.99.6:
> 
> Broadcom, 802.11b CardBus, 8.0, M^? (manufacturer 0x0, product 0x0) 
> Broadcom product 0x4320 (miscellaneous network, revision 0x03) at cardbus0 
> dev 0 function 0 not configured

Martti,

Here is more information than you wanted to know. :-)

Sadly, Broadcom wireless adapters are not supported, because documentation
is not available.  I have heard that not even Microsoft can get hold of
the documentation in order to produce a "Native WiFi" driver; Broadcom
prefers for everyone to use their binary driver.

You might try getting somebody from Broadcom on the phone to try to
persuade them to release documentation, or else send a polite e-mail to
their wireless product manager, if you can find out who that is.

I think that one could reverse-engineer the Broadcom wireless chip by
watching the Windows driver at work.  You can build an affordable bus
analyzer with the device at <http://www.fpga4fun.com/board_dragon.html>.

For what it's worth, there was a cheeky article in The Economist [1]
that chastised Broadcom for its closedness.  The paper [2] by Christian
Sandvig, David Young, and Sascha Meinrath inspired the article in The
Economist.

Dave

[1] http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=S%27%29%288%2FQA%27%20%21%20%22%3C%0A (subscription required)
[2] http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/users/csandvig/research/Hidden_Interfaces.pdf

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