NOTE: this page is for archival only, see the note at the end of the page.
bcm43xx driver capabilities
Wireless features
Works
- Station mode (also called Infrastructure or Managed mode). That's the mode where you connect to an Access Point.
- Access Point mode (although not tested very well).
- Monitor and Promisc mode.
- "Monitor while operating" and multiple monitor interfaces.
- In-Hardware traffic de/encryption (relieves your CPU).
- LEDs to signal card state and traffic.
- Probably something we forgot to add here.
Does not work, yet
- Ad-Hoc (IBSS) mode.
- In-Hardware MAC address filter.
- Interference mitigation.
- Bluetooth coexistance
- Probably something else that's not listed under "Works".
Device support
Supported
- bcm4306
- all newer revisions supported (built after about Jan 2005)
- old revisions partially supported. Lacks some features like hw-crypto.
Partially supported
- bcm4311 / bcm4312 (Major transmission power issues)
- bcm4318 (Major transmission power issues)
Unsupported
This is a static dump of the old wiki, taken after locking it in January 2015. The new wiki is at
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/.
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