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From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: 2013 MacBook Air Project
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Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>,
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On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:00:29PM +1000, Jason Birch wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > did you contribute this stuff back up to the linux driver?
> >
> 
> I did not; I was simply following a few how-tos on a colleague's machine to
> help her get a stable network connection. We never did fully crack that
> nut; I quickly realised how far out of my depth I was :)
> 
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Lundberg, Johannes <
> johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote:
> 
> > This is the info OSX gives me about the 11" 2013 MacBook Air.
> >
> 
> After a little bit of Googling, it looks like the chip inside the mid-2013
> MacBook Air is the Broadcom BCM4360 (Not the 4331 I've played with) which
> is currently _not_ supported[1] by the legacy b43 Linux driver.
> Additionally, it doesn't seem to be listed in the list of supported devices
> of Broadcom's official open-source Linux drivers[2].
> 
> Broadcom's website seems a little helpful - they offer you the ability to
> submit a request for driver help - but not for this model of chip. I think
> your best bet will be to work from the sources of the bcmwl driver[3] -
> which /might/ be related to the brcm80211 stuff? I've not dug any further.
> 
> [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices
> [2] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211#Supported_Chips
> [3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl

While not helpful in getting a native driver working, does the device
work under the NDIS emulation layer with the Windows driver?  

Gary