Linksys AE2500
Linksys AE2500
Manuf (OEM/ODM): Wistron NeWeb
FCC approval date: 16 June 2011
(Est.) release date: 08 July 2011
UPC: 745883596706 (UPC DB, On eBay)
Country of manuf.: China
Interface: USB
USB 2.0
Connector: Male A
Form factor tags: dongle
ID: 13b1:003a
Windows: USB\VID_13B1&PID_003A
FCC ID: Q87-AE2500
IC ID: 3839A-AE2500
WI1 chip1: Broadcom BCM43236
Probable Linux driver
presumably none
brcmfmac (in backports)
supports rev. 3 chips, which appear to be
43236B's non-B chips appear to be rev. 2 only and
do not use the fullmac driver model
USB ID not yet observed in any mainline kernel /
this list (note: outdated)
(see also passys)
Windows driver
try 5.100.68.46 (possibly 6.30.145.26) for XP
note: 5GHz support disabled as it seems to be broken - replace BCM43XNGD with BCM43XNMD in .inf file for your device if you wish to test it
or 5.100.68.46 for Vista/Win7
Antenna connector: none
abgn, 2x2:2
Flags: DFS
For a list of all currently documented Broadcom chipsets with specifications, see Broadcom.
High Performance Dual-Band USB Adapter
The driver available from Linksys also works with BCM4323 dongles and is probably the latest such driver available from Broadcom.
Appears to be manufactured by Wistron NeWeb. DNUB-C1 is the model mentioned on the sample label provided to the FCC.
"48DNUB0E.SGA" and "Manufactured for CISCO" are silkscreened on the board.
This device cannot be used with brcmfmac as the chip revision (r2) is unsupported.
Images
External
Internal
- from the FCC
board top w/ shield on
board top, w/ shield off
board top, w/ shield off
board bottom
brcmfmac log dump
[ 4287.620388] usb 1-3: new high speed USB device number 10 using ehci_hcd [ 4289.100334] usb 1-3: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd mtp-probe rqt 128 rq 6 len 1024 ret -110 [ 4289.184067] brcmf_usb_fw_download: unsupported chip 43236 rev 2 [ 4289.184080] brcmf_usb_attach: failed! [ 4289.184143] brcmf_usb_probe: failed with errno -19 [ 4289.184258] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
