Dell Wireless 1450 (DW1450)

Dell Wireless 1450 (DW1450)

Manuf (OEM/ODM): Askey

FCC approval date: 14 March 2003
Country of manuf.: China, Taiwan

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ASINs
B00PAQOMDA (, On Amazon, On CCC)
B004577V9W (, On Amazon, On CCC)

Interface: Mini PCI

ID: 14e4:4324 (4 addl. devices) SS: 1028:0003
Windows: PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4324&SUBSYS_00031028

FCC ID: QDS-BRCM1007, QDS-BRCM1015
IC ID: 4324B-94309MP

WI1 chip1: Broadcom BCM4309

WI1 chip2: Broadcom BCM2050

WI1 chip3: Broadcom BCM2060

Probable Linux driver
b43legacy or b43, depending on core revision (both are in backports)
PCI ID first seen in kernel v2.6.17 (2006-06-18)
(see also passys)

Antenna connector: U.FL

abg

OUI: 00:11:F5 (-, 3 W), 00:90:96 (3 E, 10 W)

	FCC ID
Broadcom BCM94309MP	QDS-BRCM1007 QDS-BRCM1015
Dell TrueMobile 1400 Dual-Band WLAN miniPCI Card	QDS-BRCM1007
Gemtek BCM94309MP	QDS-BRCM1007 HFS-BCM94309MP

	FCC ID
Broadcom BCM94309MP	QDS-BRCM1007 QDS-BRCM1015

For a list of all currently documented Broadcom chipsets with specifications, see Broadcom.

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Dell Wireless 1450 Dual-Band WLAN MiniPCI Card

Dell part DW1450 / DW 1450

lspci -nnv dump

03:06.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4324] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Dell Truemobile 1450 MiniPCI [1028:0003]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
        Memory at f9bfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
        Kernel modules: ssb

ssb + b43 info dump

[  477.200116] ssb: Found chip with id 0x4306, rev 0x03 and package 0x01
[  477.200133] ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243)
[  477.200144] ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x05, vendor 0x4243)
[  477.200153] ssb: Core 2 found: PCMCIA (cc 0x80D, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
[  477.200162] ssb: Core 3 found: V90 (cc 0x807, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
[  477.200171] ssb: Core 4 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x09, vendor 0x4243)
[  477.205048] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:03:06.0
[  477.218266] b43-phy3: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found (core revision 5)
[  477.246157] b43-phy3: Found PHY: Analog 2, Type 2 (G), Revision 2
[  477.270253] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNL ]
[  477.272413] ieee80211 phy3: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[  477.469989] b43-phy3: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
[  477.530879] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan15: link is not ready

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