воскресенье, 3 декабря 2017 г.

BCM943228HMB Drivers for win7 win8

I received my BCM943228HMB bought on aliexpress and found that official drivers do not fit this device bought in china.



After looking into linux drivers sources,  i found that cards bundled with HP notebooks are exactly the same.
After a few hours trying different drivers from google (query: "BCM943228HMB  site:ftp.hp.com" )
I found this  (.exe) as a latest version for Win7 OS.

Unfortunately  installation fails with C++ code exception and i decided to dig further:
after extraction the installation binary with 7zip and setup.exe with uniextract i found a clear driver files  with bcmwl6.inf .

This device like ones for dell has VID/PID PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4359
but, diferent subsys and REV values ( SUBSYS_061017AA&REV_00)
So,i downloaded drivers from the dell`s site. Opened with my favorite editor

And added 

%BCM43228NM_DeviceDesc_HPD% = BCM43XNM23_NT61, PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4359&SUBSYS_061017AA&REV_00


After

%BCM43228NM_DeviceDesc_HPD% = BCM43XNM23_NT61, PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4359&SUBSYS_22D5103C

in each section of bcmwl6.inf
After this, i used the original windows "update driver" - "select manually" interface and Wifi card started working with even no reboot required.

If you need a driver for  BCM943228HMB, i recommend you to do all this steps yourself. Downloading drivers from unofficial sources is insecure (i consider hp.com as trusted source)  

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