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    The document outlines the features, known issues, and resolved issues of a Broadcom wireless driver software release.

    The driver supports many IEEE 802.11 wireless standards as well as security features like WPA, WPA2, and encryption methods. It also supports features like Bluetooth coexistence, power management, and priority tagging.

    New features in this release include transmit beamforming and Wi-Fi Direct certification for some adapter models.

    WLAN Software Release Notes

    Date: 5-Feb-2014

    Package Series: AARDVARK_TWIG_6_30_223

    Copyright 2001-2013 Broadcom Corporation


    Broadcom Confidential and Proprietary

    1. Overview
    This delivery provides the latest Broadcom software release, and includes the following
    packages:

    BCM_DriverOnly

    = INF Driver Only

    BCM_Installshield_Driver

    = Driver Setup Package

    The version numbers for the software components are as follows:

    Installer:

    6.30.223.227

    STA Driver:

    6.30.223.227

    The release includes WHQL-signed CAT files from Microsoft and is intended for
    production purposes.
    For newly added:

    Features see section 3

    Adapters see section 5

    Resolved observations see section 10

    For existing:

    Features see section 2

    Adapters see section 4

    Known observations see section 9

    Operating Systems see section 7

    This software supports the following languages:

    English

    Brazilian
    Portuguese

    Japanese

    Dutch

    Swedish

    Hungarian

    German

    European
    Portuguese

    Korean

    Finnish

    Polish

    Turkish

    Italian

    Simplified Chinese

    Thai

    Norwegian

    Greek

    Russian

    International
    Spanish

    Traditional
    Chinese

    Danish

    French

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    2. Existing Features
    Driver Support:
    Feature

    Description

    IEEE 802.11a

    Supports all IEEE 802.11a mandatory modes and data rates up to 54Mbps

    IEEE 802.11b

    Supports all IEEE 802.11b mandatory modes and data rates (i.e. 11, 5.5, 2
    and 1 Mbps)

    IEEE 802.11g

    Supports all IEEE 802.11g mandatory modes and data rates up to 54Mbps

    IEEE 802.11n

    Supports all IEEE 802.11n

    IEEE 802.11d

    Partial support

    IEEE 802.11i

    Supports 802.11i, including Driver only support for Pre-Authentication.


    Authentication supported:
    - WPA- Enterprise w/ TKIP
    - WPA- PSK
    - WPA2- Enterprise w/ AES-CCMP
    - WPA2- Enterprise w/ TKIP
    - WPA2- PSK

    IEEE 802.11e

    Partial support

    IEEE 802.11h

    Supports 802.11h including TPC, DFS and active client radar detection

    IEEE 802.11k

    Partial support, including measurement reporting

    IEEE 802.1p

    Priority Tagging, mapping frames to queues based on tags as defined in


    802.1d (802.1p is a subset of 802.1d).

    WFA 802.11b/g

    Wi-Fi Alliance 802.11 b/g certified

    WFA 802.11a

    Wi-Fi Alliance 802.11a dual-band certified

    WFA 802.11n

    Wi-Fi Alliance 802.11n certified

    WFA 802.11r

    Partial compliance to the draft 802.11r fast roaming standard.

    WFA WPA

    Wi-Fi Alliance 802.11 WPA certified

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    Broadcom Confidential and Proprietary

    Feature

    Description

    WFA WPA2 Personal

    Wi-Fi Alliance 802.11 WPA2 Personal Certified.

    WFA WPA2
    Enterprise

    Wi-Fi Alliance WPA2 Enterprise Certified.

    WFA WMM

    Wi-Fi Alliance WMM certified based on 802.11e.

    WFA Wi-Fi Protected


    Setup (WPS)

    Wi-Fi Alliance Protected Setup Certified supporting PIN and push button
    modes.

    Windows / WHQL
    Logo

    Formally passes Microsoft HCK/DTM tests and WHQL / Premium Logo.

    Encryption:

    - OPEN
    - WEP (64/128 bit) including key avoidance and IV randomization
    - TKIP
    - CKIP (CCX feature)
    - AES_ CCMP
    - Michael Checksum

    Wi-Fi LED

    Provides user feedback regarding radio state

    Wireless On/OFF

    Supports Fn-Fn2 Radio On/Off toggle, and Radio On/Off switch. Both mutually
    exclusive on a specific target platform

    Bluetooth
    Coexistence

    Broadcom WLAN-Bluetooth co-existence scheme

    ACPI Sleep

    Supports platform APCI 2.0 sleep states (D0-D3)

    Resume state
    behavior

    Returns to the pre-hibernation (S4) or pre-suspend (S3) radio enable/disable


    state when resuming

    Wake On WLAN

    Supports Wake On WLAN operation, including:


    Under AC power only
    Wake from S3 and S4
    Wake from S5
    Wake on MagicPacket, DirectedPacket

    Secure IBSS

    Provide WPA support for IBSS network connections (Vista and Win7).

    Coexistence Mode Optimization

    BT/Wi-Fi coexistence optimization through gain table tuning

    11n BTAMP

    BT over Wi-Fi

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    Feature

    Description

    Velocity Compliance
    Windows HCK

    Microsoft HCK 2.1 certified

    Application Support:
    Feature

    Description

    IEEE 802.1x

    Supports 802.1x supplicant functionality for both WinXP and Vista.


    Authentication support:
    - EAP- TLS
    - EAP-TTLS/PAP
    - EAP-TTLS/CHAP
    - EAP-TTLS/MS-CHAP
    - EAP-TTLS/MS-CHAPv2
    - EAP-TTLS/MD5
    - EAP-MS-CHAPv2
    - EAP- LEAP
    - EAP- PEAP (GTC)
    - EAP- PEAP (Auto-GTC)
    - EAP- PEAP (TLS)
    - EAP- PEAP (MSCHAPv2)
    - EAP- FAST
    - Smart Card support for TLS

    CCX

    - Support v5 for Win7, Vista


    - Support v4 for XP
    On limited range of platforms

    Common Profiles

    Profiles can be setup to be shared across all machine accounts desirable in


    cases where several users share one machine (e.g. factory / retail
    environment).

    Windows
    Management
    Instrumentation

    Supports Windows Management Instrumentation.

    Single Sign-On

    Allows a single set of credentials (e.g. Windows log on and domain) to be


    used for wireless authentication as well as domain login.

    Cisco LEAP Single


    Sign-On

    Allow Windows log on and domain to be used for LEAP Authentication (single
    sign-on support).

    PEAP Single SignOn

    Allow Windows log on and domain to be used for PEAP Authentication.

    Smartcard Single
    Sign-On

    Allow single SmartCard Authentication for Windows log on and wireless


    authentication (TLS, TTLS, & PEAP supported).

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    Feature

    Description

    TPM 1.2 support

    Supports Trusted Platform Module 1.2

    RF Aware SDK (+ Interference


    Classification)

    Capability to detect RF interference, classify it and prompt the user with


    suggestions to avoid it.

    UI resize

    Support for smaller net book size displays

    Wi-Fi Direct
    Certification

    SDK certified for 4313ePA standalone, 43224 and 43225

    WPS 2.0

    Wi-Fi Protected Setup 2.0

    3. New Features
    Feature

    Description

    TxBF

    Transmit Beam Forming for 11ac chips

    4. Existing Adapter Support


    BCM94313HMG2L

    4313ePA 11b/g/n 1x1 SB (2.4


    GHZ) half mini PCIe

    BCM94313HMGBEPA

    4313ePA + 2070 Combo 11b/g/n


    1x1 SB (2.4 GHZ) half mini PCIe

    BCM4313HMGBL

    4313iPA + 20702 Combo 11b/g/n


    1x1 SB (2.4 GHZ) half mini PCIe

    BCM94313HMG

    4313iPA 11b/g/n 1x1 SB (2.4


    GHZ) half mini PCIe Extra Low
    Cost

    BCM943224HMS

    43224 11a/b/g/n 2x2 DB (2.4 + 5


    GHz) half mini PCIe

    BCM943225HMB

    43225 + 2070 Combo 11a/b/g/n


    2x2 SB (2.4 GHz) half mini PCIe

    BCM943228HM4L

    43228 11a/b/g/n 2x2 DB (2.4 + 5


    GHZ) Half-mini PCIe Low Cost

    BCM943228HMB

    43228 + 20702 Combo 11a/b/g/n


    2x2 DB (2.4 + 5 GHZ) Half-mini

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    PCIe Low Cost


    BCM943228HM4L2

    43228 11a/b/g/n 2x2 DB (2.4 + 5


    GHZ) Half-mini PCIe Extra Low
    Cost

    BCM943142HM

    43142 11b/g/n 1x1 & Bluetooth


    Lowcost Half-Mini PCIe

    5. New Adapter Support


    BCM4352hmb

    4352 + 20702 Combo 11ac 2x2


    DualBand Half-mini card

    6. Supported Platforms
    Commercial and Consumer platforms that accept Broadcom WLAN network adapters.

    7. Operating Systems

    Microsoft Windows 8.1

    8. Hardware Requirements
    Software is expected to only be run on a mobile system with a minimum configuration of
    Pentium 300 MHz and 128 MB of RAM. The customer will control the distribution method
    of the software to ensure it is only preinstalled and web released for qualified mobile
    systems.

    9. Known Observations
    Observation

    Description

    WOWL

    Win8/8.1 set to not support Wake-On-WLAN by Broadcom generic


    default

    10.

    Resolved Observations
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    Observation

    Description

    SWWLAN-35634

    CPM- Implement SONY's RSSI to LQ mapping table for 43142 project

    SWWLAN-38624

    UTF: fixed 43142 WinBlue phy_forcecal assertion "ctx" failed.

    SWWLAN-39877

    4352hmb max T-put lower than 300Mbps on all AMD platforms.

    SWWLAN-41079

    43142hm dual ANT poor Coex performance at high attenuation

    SWWLAN-41557

    43142hm single ANT Coex performance tuning

    SWWLAN-41690

    43228/43224 causing radar falsing on Cisco AP (Marvel based).

    SWWLAN-42705

    Fixed WHCK.2.1.9600->"NDISTest 6.5 - WLANMPE"->BugCheck C4


    {94008} caused by ntkrnlmp.exe (nt!IopProcessWorkItem).

    11.

    Installation Requirements and Instructions

    11.1. Install Instructions


    The following command-line switches are available options for installation. This is a fully
    inclusive listing; options supported will vary with respect to delivered package content:

    Setup.exe -extract_all:[Destination Folder]


    Extracts all the files from the package to the specified folder.
    Setup.exe -s
    Runs InstallShield Silent to execute a silent setup.

    12.

    BIOS Requirements
    The customer will control the method for limiting specific adapter cards to qualified mobile
    systems.

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