It's a bit of a guess, but I had one of those Broadcom ones in my Laptop (albeit with a very slightly different USB ID) and got it working before by doing this.
Basically they they've just got a list of USB adaptors that they know it works with - and yours wasn't in that list even though it will probably be fine.
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It's a bit of a guess, but I had one of those Broadcom ones in my Laptop (albeit with a very slightly different USB ID) and got it working before by doing this.
Basically they they've just got a list of USB adaptors that they know it works with - and yours wasn't in that list even though it will probably be fine.