From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 20 00:05:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4892C106568A for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 00:05:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@uffner.com) Received: from eris.uffner.com (uffner.com [66.208.243.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E5F8FC15 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 00:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kali.uffner.com (static-71-162-143-90.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [71.162.143.90]) (authenticated bits=0) by eris.uffner.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o4K087LO032030 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 19 May 2010 20:08:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tom@uffner.com) Message-ID: <4BF46E78.6030909@uffner.com> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 19:04:24 -0400 From: Tom Uffner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090916 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Attilio Rao 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 00:05:54 -0000 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 00:26:5e:64:be:75 0 0 0 > 0 0 0 > > # ifconfig wlan0 > wlan0: flags=8843 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