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Broadcom Corporation is a company designing chips and similar hardware for wireless and broadband communication.

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Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers on Solus

all. I've been having trouble installing broadcom drivers that actually work for my PCIe WiFI card. Specifically, I want to know specifically the consecutive steps one must take to install the proper Broadcom drivers for this card: Rosewill…
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FCoE on RedHat 7.4 server with QLogic BCM57xx not detecting the SAN

I am trying to configure RH7.4, installed a Dell Poweredge FC830 to talk to an EMC Unity SAN. The server has a QLogic BCM57xx card. I used the lifecycle controller to deploy the OS. After the installation I couldn't see the expected 'Fibre' lines in…
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CentOS 7 USB. Connect to Wi-Fi using CLI only

I just installed CentOS 7 [Kernel 3.10.0-514] on my USB stick. Operating system works fine but I had some problems with my Broadcom 43227 wireless card. I downloaded driver, patched it, changed code a bit according to the instruction here:…
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Reduce wifi range to 2-3 metre

I want to keep two wifi routers in a room in such a way that a WiFi station does not see both the Access Points at the same time. My idea is to reduce the transmit power of the AP so that the WiFi range becomes around 2-3 metres. Is this…
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Invalid ELF file error in CFE bootloader

I have a Broadcom switch board with a MPC8548E PowerPC CPU on it. I have created a toolchain for this very CPU using crosstool-ng. When I try to load the compiled binary using the CFE> boot loader on this board with the command load -elf…
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Ubuntu 16.04 withh Kernel 4.7 and Broadcom Wireless - no bcmwl

I have manually installed Kernel 4.7 on *buntu 16.04. My WLAN (Broadcom BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n) uses bcma and wl modules. Tried to add broadcom-sta-dkms via apt install --reinstall which detects Kernel 4.7 but reports: Building initial module for…
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What is a "pixel valve" in bcm2835 chip

In open source driver code of vc4 authored by Eric, there's something called "pixel valve". Apparently it has something to do with display output. But I would really want have more information about what exactly it is? How does it…
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Booting linux from CFE

I'm trying to boot a linux image (3.14) on a powerpc processor board. I have as my boot loader broadcom's CFE boot loader. I appear to be having problems with the device tree. When CFE branches to the kernel entry point it goes (by default) to…
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Mips fsbl code keeps rebooting

I'm working on Mips R4380 chip and its an embedded system of Broadcom 7xxx platform. I have a code like this: .globl print_forever; .ent print_forever; .set noreorder loop: PRINT_CHAR('0') nop b loop nop .set reorder .end…
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What needs to be done in linux kernel to initialize broadcom L2 switch via PCI-E?

I have a custom board with Armada 370 SoC in which a Broadcom L2 switch is now being added via PCI-E to the Soc. The board runs on linux. I want to just initialize the L2 switch registers. I just want very minimal access so that I can access the…
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Broadcom WICED API will not disconnect Bluetooth LE connection

I've developed embedded software on a central board and a peripheral board, using Broadcom's WICED v1.0.1 API. When my central scans, it detects the peripheral advertisement. When my central then connects, that works, and the peripheral detects…
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1-Byte response issue in transceive function in Broadcom NFC Android stack

I am using an NFC Tag Type 2. I am having a problem with 1-Byte ACK/NACK responses when calling a transceive() function running the Broadcom NFC Android stack. This problem doesn't happen with the NXP NFC Android stack. For example, the ACK response…
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How to fix 802.11 Linux STA broadcom driver not building on CENTOS?

I have got CENTOS 6.3 installed. My machine is Dell Studio. I have the following wireless broadcom model. [root@treasure hybrid_wl]# lspci | grep -i wireless 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN…
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ANDROID EMULATOR with NFC Broadcom middleware STACK

I want to connect NFC firmware to Android Emulator running with newly arrived Broadcom Stack. But I could not find any NFC related settings or modules in the default emulators provided by the SDK version 4.2 (API 17) downloaded onto Eclipse. Can…
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Writing drivers for a NIC from a datasheet

I am interested in writing a driver for the Broadcom BCM4330 chip for Linux, however the datasheet for it does not give me any information on the VENDOR_ID or DEVICE_ID nor any technical information on physical addresses of the chip. How would one…
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