Broadcom WAN Agnostic Residential Gateway
Embedded System Source
Router Release Packages 5.20.x

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System Requirements

Operating Systems:

• Linux 2.4.20 kernel
• Linux 2.6.22 kernel
• VxWorks Tornado 2.1(END)

Hardware:

• BCM94705LGR, BCM94704agr, BCM94704mpcb  -or-
• Base Reference Design with a BCM94321 MiniPCI card -or-
• Base Reference Design with a BCM94322 MiniPCI card -or-
• Base Reference Design with a BCM94312 SDIO module -or-
• Vendor Equivalent

Current Known Limitations, Problems and Notices 

• Customer shall (i) obtain all government approvals and registrations for Customer's use of the software and (ii) comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations in connection therewith (including, without limitation, regulatory requirements under Title 47 CFR Part 15, Industry Canada RSS-210, European Directive 1999/5/EC, and regulations related to RF exposure). Customer understands and acknowledges that the software is subject to all pertinent import and export laws of the United States.
• Linux: Application triggered port forwarding should only be disabled while traffic is not currently running.
• Linux: Afterburner mode does not support fragmentation. Customer  web pages will need to ensure that this combination is not set. The Broadcom sample web pages does not currently do this.
• Linux and VxWorks: CFE is the only supported boot loader 
• This package includes code used in SES from an SSL implementation written by Eric Young. Please note Eric Young's software includes the following restrictions:

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What's New in Release 5.22.66?

• Based on wl driver version 5.10.
• Fix for ACI detection for AP: do not condition on association state (as done for a STA)
• Fix two issues relating to AP Interference Mitigation when Autochannel is off
• Better checking for sprom/OTP availability and fallback to nvram
• CFE: Fixed boundary check error in lzma decompression.
• Recognize 43111/43112 devices
• Fix to allow the pci probe function to accept the device ids 43xxx

What's New in Release 5.22.65?

• Based on wl driver version 5.10.119
• Fix to mute the phy if 11h is enabled and we are AP operating on radar sensitive channel.

What's New in Release 5.22.64?

• Based on wl driver version 5.10.
• By default restrict TKIP associations from 11n STA's
• Fix TGN 4.2.40: Beacon does not advertise RIFS as 0
• DFS Update: changed radar args npulses to 4 ncontig to 2 for EU based locales. This applies to both 20MHz and 40MHz radarargs.
• DFS Update: Added enabling filters for FAA radars, pw=2us

What's New in Release 5.22.61?

• Based on wl driver version 5.10.114
• Reject the assoc/reassoc request if a 11n STA tries to connect using TKIP encryption
• Fix hang/crash issue observed on 4718nr+4322 and 4718nrl+43224.
• Changes to support TGN Test 4.2.39, Transmit STBC/Non-STBC frames to STBC/Non-STBC capable STA respectively
• Add counter for STBC and SGI tx/rx

What's New in Release 5.22.60?

• Based on wl driver version 5.10.111
• Expose OBSS coex control on external UI for router
• AP now checks for any 40 intolerant association before upgrade to 40MHz
• Add wl command to mask the trigger event A for obss support to support test
• Fix router reboots during frequency accuracy test
• AP Autochannel Interference Mitigation fix for legacy mode
• Performance improvements for encrypted WET links
• Make the max number of BSSIDs under hardware MBSSID programmable (but power of 2).
• Add ucode based CCA stats
• Change ISRAEL Locale settings for 2.4GHz operation (802.11n - CDD/SDM) to Locale Bn
• Changes for CLMv2.6 and CLMv2.6.1
• Add Rx Chain Powersave mode
• Fix cannot send BAR when out of memory
• Fix radio register VCO CAL settings for 4322, 43222, 43224

What's New in Release 5.22.54?

• Based on wl driver version 5.10.105
• Better IPA calibration in presence of WMM traffic
• Remove the restriction of not transmitting probe responses during pre-tbtt when hw MBSSID is enabled.

What's New in Release 5.22.52?

• Based on wl driver version 5.10.102
• Improvements to interference mitigation
• Major ACI/noise mitigation restructuring
• CLM update for 43224/43225
• Fixes for the issue where beacons are sent on secondary channel as a result of Autochannel selection
• Rate selection fixes for handling of fallback rates
• Fix 4321 RvR 2.4G @20 sensitivity issue
• CLM 2.3 for 471x based designs
• Fix an old bug that when ON time is smaller than OFF time, LED will never be turned on.
• fallback rate retransmissions for non-AMPDUs is broken (ucode would use the primary rate instead of the fallback)
• Need to report short GI capability on chipsets that support it
• Work-arounds to squash the 2440 MHz spurs in 40 MHz channels on 43222MP2 boards with shields when the 2G band spur WAR boardflag is enabled.
• Fix bug in idle TSSI initialization
• Fix 802.1d country_ie interpretation for 5G channels
• Take care of the cases that LED timer fires earlier than expected.
• Add AP Interference Mitigation support
• Fix bug in wlc_process_beacon
• Fix a problem with the duty cycle for mimo frames (they would have used the duty cycle value of cck frames as opposed to ofdm).
• Fixes for wl interference mode 4
• Support reading OTP on PCI based chips
• Enable 2o3 antenna selection for 4322x

What's New in Release 5.22.41?

• Based on wl driver version 5.10.85
• Fix WiFi TGN test 4.2.22 (step10) failure
• Regulatory update to add ch14 cck to locale A2
• Use lzma compression for compressed CFE
• For newer MIMO chips, limit transmission of CCK packets to Ant0 only, based on board flags2
• Changed bridge port allocation flag to ATOMIC to fix router crashes in some tests
• Enhancements to the display of the "wl curpower" command
• DFS false detection improvements
• Fix HT40 mode high channels cannot reach full power
• Performance enhancements for encrypted traffic
• Rate selection improvements

What's New in Release 5.22.39?

• Based on wl driver version 5.10.79
• WPS fix for Vista Router failing test "WCN Error Handling and Temp Test 4"
• Enable IPv6 for Vista Router builds
• Fix WDS with AES encryption

What's New in Release 5.22.34?

• Based on wl driver version 5.10.79
• Fix for crash when using packet engine in mfg tests
• DFS/Radar improvements
• Check the SSID in association requests from a client STA
• Send cts-to-self to prevent calibration being disrupted
• Fix transmission of fallback rates for AMPDU
• New regulatory Country/Locale Matrix v2.1, v2.1.1

What's New in Release 5.22.27?

• Based on wl driver version 5.10.67
• EVM improvements, especially for 43222 5GHz band
• Fix accounting of rx crs glitch count and bphy glitch count

What's New in Release 5.22.26?

• Based on wl driver version 5.10.65
• Initial router release with support for bcm43222

 Support

• If you have questions, please send email to hnsupport@broadcom.com.
• If you would like to report a bug, please go to our partner support site at http://support.broadcom.com, and select the "Bug Reporting" button once logged on with your company specific username/password provided to you by Broadcom. Be sure and use the appropriate category (partner_hw for hardware issues, partner_sw for software issues).

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