Broadcom BCM4352 support in RHEL 7
Hi,
is there any plan to add support for the Broadcom BCM4352 WiFi adapter?
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)
Thanks
//Zdenek
Responses
Guru
2404 points
Will be nice if the driver is in RHEL. But I usually refer people to ELRepo's wl-kmod page.
Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
Feel free to write to Broadcom and encourage them to release these drivers under a free software license. We'd like to ship them too!
Pro
730 points
Hi Jamie,
I can try of course, if you help me with some details like:
- Which license(s) is/are accepted fro Red Hat to include the driver into distribution? (GPL2+, ...)
- Do you have any other Broadcom WiFi driver already in the kernel I can use as an example when asking them for releasing the BCM4352 one?
//Zdenek
Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
Into the main kernel package and the RHEL distribution, I believe we only package software under a GPL or GPL-compliant licenses.
Red Hat do ship some software with different licenses in the Supplementary Channel however we do not ship a package for wl.
Just checking upstream, it appears that Broadcom's b43 driver already contains support for this hardware. This was a recent addition in kernel 3.15 (May 2014) which hasn't been pulled back into RHEL6 yet.
I'm not sure if these devices require some other action (like extracting firmware to a file or using a firmware file from Broadcom), or if driver support is incomplete, or if they are working well, however we'd be interested in a feature request to have b43 updated and this device supported in RHEL. Red Hat Engineering have traditionally honoured such requests when there is full working support for the device upstream.
If you'd like to request this, please do open a support case with us, requesting that b43 be updated to support Broadcom BCM4352 and show the output of lspci -nn | grep Broadcom. Note a feature request like this may take a minor release or more to fulfil. At the moment we'd be requesting for RHEL 6.8.
Pro
730 points
Ok, thank you, I will open a support case.
BTW I talked about RHEL 7, but I presume the situation is the same as in RHEL 6, isn't it?
//Zdenek
Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
Yes, RHEL7's kernel is based on 3.10 and we haven't updated b43 there either, so both RHEL6 and RHEL7 are in the same situation.
Also you are welcome to post the case number here, I will watch and help it go as smooth as possible.
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