Broadcom Bcm94313hmg2l Driver Access

Have you managed to get the BCM94313HMG2L working under a recent BSD or with OpenWrt? Let me know in the comments. #Broadcom #LinuxDrivers #Hackintosh #WiFi #HardwareDebug

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If you’ve recently salvaged a Wi-Fi card from a low-end Windows laptop or purchased a “dual-band 802.11n” mini PCIe adapter on a budget, you might have encountered the . broadcom bcm94313hmg2l driver

You’ll likely hit the infamous “Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac4313-sdio.bin failed” error. Have you managed to get the BCM94313HMG2L working

Only if you get it for free or under $5. For the same Mini PCIe slot, a Realtek RTL8821AE or an Intel 7260HMW offers dual-band 802.11ac and far better driver sanity. You’ll likely hit the infamous “Direct firmware load

Broadcom uses different firmware blobs for the 4313 depending on whether the card is connected via SDIO or PCIe. For this card (PCIe variant), you actually need brcmfmac4313-pcie.bin .

The kernel recognizes the PCIe device and loads brcmfmac .