Linksys WPC600N

Linksys WPC600N

Manuf (OEM/ODM): Gemtek

FCC approval date: 31 July 2007
UPC: 745883573172 (UPC DB, On eBay)
Country of manuf.: Taiwan

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ASIN
B000WMK8TE (, On Amazon, On CCC)

Interface: PCMCIA (32-bit)

ID: 14e4:4328 (15 addl. devices) SS: 1737:0066
Windows: PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4328&SUBSYS_00661737

FCC ID: Q87-WPC600NV11
IC ID: 3839A-WPC6NV11

WI1 chip1: Broadcom BCM4321

WI1 chip2: Broadcom BCM2055

Additional chips
2.4/5GHz Front End Module;Skyworks;unknown;;1;

Probable Linux driver
b43 (in backports) or wl
PCI ID first seen in kernel v2.6.25 (2008-04-17)
(see also passys)

Antenna connector: none

abgn, 2x2:2

Flags: DFS

OUI: 00:1E:E5 (14 E, 21 W), 00:21:29 (10 E, 16 W), 00:22:6B (9 E, 11 W), 00:23:69 (13 E, 19 W)

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

Dual-Band Wireless-N Notebook Adapter

• Support page

WPC600N serial numbers appear to start with ANV0 or MNV0.

Wi-Fi Certified : WFA5421 (as of 03/31/2008)

lspci -nnv dump

Network controller: Broadcom BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4328] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Linksys WPC600N v1 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless-N Adapter [1737:0066]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
        Memory at f1d00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

ssb + b43 dump

ssb: Found chip with id 0x4321, rev 0x01 and package 0x01
ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x12, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x0B, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 2 found: PCI-E (cc 0x820, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 3 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x0D, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 4 found: USB 1.1 Host (cc 0x817, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:06:00.0
b43-phy5: Broadcom 4321 WLAN found (core revision 11)
b43-phy5: Found PHY: Analog 5, Type 4 (N), Revision 1
          Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNL ]
ieee80211 phy5: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
b43-phy5: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
b43-phy5 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000400, 0x00000000, 0x00000000
b43-phy5 ERROR: This device does not support DMA on your system.
         It will now be switched to PIO.
b43-phy5: Controller RESET (DMA error) ...
b43-phy5: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
b43-phy5 warning: Forced PIO by use_pio module parameter.
         This should not be needed and will result in lower performance.
b43-phy5: Controller restarted
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan147: link is not ready