Dell Wireless 1450 (DW1450)

abg (AG108)
Dell Wireless 1450 Dual-Band WLAN MiniPCI Card
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Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	Dell Wireless 1450
Model Part Number	DW1450
Interface	Mini PCI
Connector	Mini PCI
ID:14e4:4324 (4 addl. devices) SS: 1028:0003 Windows: PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4324&SUBSYS_00031028
FCCID	QDS-BRCM1007, QDS-BRCM1015
ICID	4324B-94309MP
Chip1	Broadcom BCM4309
Chip2	Broadcom BCM2050
Chip3	Broadcom BCM2060
OUI: 00:11:F5 (-, 3 W), 00:90:96 (3 E, 10 W)
Antenna Connection	U.FL
Wireless Standards	IEEE 802.11a/b/g
802.11g	up to 54 Mbps
802.11b	up to 11 Mbps
802.11a	up to 54 Mbps
Operating Frequency	2.4 or 5 GHz
Other
Manuf/OEM/ODM	Askey
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)
Retail
FCC approval date	14 March 2003
ASINs	B00PAQOMDA B004577V9W
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.

For a list of all currently documented Dell device with specifications, see Dell.

• 54 Mbps - 5GHz 802.11a

• 54 Mbps - 2.4GHz 802.11g = AG108 class

Overview

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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