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Re: BCM43224 driver
Hi John,
> I want to know if there is any chance to enable Broadcom BCM 43224 in netbsd.
> What driver (even similar driver) i could use for this.
congrats on switching from text/html to text/plain. That makes
your mails readable for me (I'm using mail(1) from base) and deserves
a reply.
Most chapter 4 man pages for the various drivers explicitly list
the chips and product brand names supported by the driver.
NetBSD's "man -k" keyword search is now full-text based, and that makes
it much easier to search for drivers or the stat of support.
On NetBSD-8-stable, I get these results:
man -k 43224 ==> nothing
man -k bmc ==> a single false hit ("bcms" in dhcp-options(5))
man -k braodcom ==> half a dozen broadcom network drivers
Out of the latter, bwi(4) appears to be the closest candidate, but
not a really good match for your hardware. It lists:
HARDWARE
The following cards are among those supported by the bwi driver:
Card Chip Bus Standard
Buffalo WLI-CB-G54 BCM4306 CardBus b/g
Buffalo WLI3-CB-G54L BCM4318 CardBus b/g
Buffalo WLI-PCI-G54S BCM4306 PCI b/g
Dell Wireless 1370 BCM4318 Mini PCI b/g
Dell Wireless 1470 BCM4318 Mini PCI b/g
Dell Truemobile 1400 BCM4309 Mini PCI b/g
Dell Latitude D505 BCM4306 PCI b/g
Apple AirPort Extreme b/g
Alas, the "43224" doesn't appear to be closely related to this 43xy chip
family.
That's the general idea to look for a driver. It also makes sense
to "man -k" for product or model names. You *might* be more lucky
with NetBSD-9 or -current, I didn't check these.
Usually, NetBSD will auto-detect all hardware which it supports.
So don't expect too much. These "man -k" checks are best before
you invest in new hardware to see wether it would be supported.
Martin Neitzel
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