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