WLAN Software Release Notes

Date: 3-Mar-2014

Package Series: AARDVARK_TWIG_6_30_223

Copyright © 2001-2013 Broadcom Corporation

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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: 6.30.223.228
 STA Driver: 6.30.223.228

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:

Brazilian
English Japanese Dutch Swedish Hungarian
Portuguese

European
German Korean Finnish Polish Turkish
Portuguese

Italian Simplified Chinese Thai Norwegian Greek Russian

International Traditional
Danish French - -
Spanish Chinese

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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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Feature Description

WFA WPA2 Personal Wi-Fi Alliance 802.11 WPA2 Personal Certified.

WFA WPA2 Wi-Fi Alliance WPA2 Enterprise Certified.

Enterprise

WFA WMM Wi-Fi Alliance WMM certified based on 802.11e.

WFA Wi-Fi Protected Wi-Fi Alliance Protected Setup Certified supporting PIN and push button
Setup (WPS) modes.

Windows / WHQL Formally passes Microsoft HCK/DTM tests and WHQL / Premium Logo.
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 Broadcom WLAN-Bluetooth co-existence scheme

Coexistence
ACPI Sleep Supports platform APCI 2.0 sleep states (D0-D3)

Resume state Returns to the pre-hibernation (S4) or pre-suspend (S3) radio enable/disable
behavior 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 - BT/Wi-Fi coexistence optimization through gain table tuning

Optimization

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 Supports Windows Management Instrumentation.
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 Allow Windows log on and domain to be used for LEAP Authentication (single
Sign-On sign-on support).

PEAP Single Sign- Allow Windows log on and domain to be used for PEAP Authentication.
On
Smartcard Single Allow single SmartCard Authentication for Windows log on and wireless
Sign-On authentication (TLS, TTLS, & PEAP supported).

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Feature Description

TPM 1.2 support Supports Trusted Platform Module 1.2

RF Aware SDK - Capability to detect RF interference, classify it and prompt the user with
(+ Interference suggestions to avoid it.
Classification)

UI resize Support for smaller net book size displays

Wi-Fi Direct SDK certified for 4313ePA standalone, 43224 and 43225
Certification

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 7
 Microsoft Windows 8
 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

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10. Resolved Observations

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).

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

SWWLAN-42705
{94008} caused by ntkrnlmp.exe (nt!IopProcessWorkItem).

SWCLM-149 Updated country table to v7.10.15

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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