Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 19:04:24 -0400 From: Tom Uffner <tom@uffner.com> To: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver Message-ID: <4BF46E78.6030909@uffner.com> In-Reply-To: <v2t3bbf2fe11005061327yd59ff3aew35c88b690b4de6c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100226005115.GP14937@weongyo> <20100228095259.GB3536@weongyo> <20100301103240.3a4aac8a.ray@dlink.ua> <20100303082833.GB22865@weongyo> <20100303111014.6564ea1e.ray@dlink.ua> <20100312231333.GZ1295@weongyo> <4BD2201E.3090409@entel.upc.edu> <20100424231755.GI65380@weongyo> <4BD4A928.8020901@entel.upc.edu> <20100506190653.GA31100@weongyo> <v2t3bbf2fe11005061327yd59ff3aew35c88b690b4de6c@mail.gmail.com>
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Attilio Rao wrote: > > I have another problem where the bwn is fully recognized and wlan0 is > created but the interface doesn't scan at all: > > # netstat -nil > Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Idrop > Opkts Oerrs Coll > bwn0 2290 <Link#1> 00:26:5e:64:be:75 0 0 0 > 0 0 0 > > # ifconfig wlan0 > wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > ether 00:26:5e:64:be:75 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) > status: no carrier > ssid "" channel 1 (2412 MHz 11b) > country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 30 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 > bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 1 wme > bintval 0 > > # kldstat > Id Refs Address Size Name > 1 4 0xffffffff80100000 90b9a8 kernel > 2 1 0xffffffff80c22000 28a9a bwn_v4_ucode.ko > > doing "ifconfig wlan0 list scan" ends up immediately without further output. > The dmesg is here: http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/dmesg-bwn0.diff I had a similar problem w/ a 4309. If you haven't solved this already, please check that the radio is actually enabled. some laptops have a button. some have a key sequence. many also have a BIOS setting. mine looked pretty much the same as yours to FreeBSD but just endlessly scanned the channels for a signal until i noticed that the radio was disabled in BIOS. tom
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