Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:23:35 +0100 From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org> To: Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bwn(4) support for BCM4322 (MacBook WiFi) Message-ID: <201101311523.36269.bschmidt@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110131131400.GA71793@bacardi.wooloowin.frase.id.au> References: <20110131131400.GA71793@bacardi.wooloowin.frase.id.au>
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On Monday, January 31, 2011 14:14:01 Fraser Tweedale wrote: > I might be fighting a losing battle, but any advice on getting the > Broadcom BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n working? This chip is found in > Apple's MacBook and probably elsewhere. > > I'm currently running amd64 8.2-RC2. As best as I can see, HEAD has > nothing that RELENG_8_2 doesn't have, as far as bwn(4) is concerned. > > As per the bwn(4) man page, I installed the net/bwn-firmware-kmod > port. The firmware failed to load, giving a "firmware table full" > error. Seems that others had this issue. Bumping the firmware > table size FIRMWARE_MAX in sys/kern/subr_firmware.c was the > suggested workaround; both modules provided by the port - > bwn_v4_lp_ucode.ko and bwn_v4_ucode.ko - now load without error. > > Loading if_bwn.ko yeilds the following on console: > > siba_bwn0: <Unknown> mem 0x93100000-0x93103fff irq 18 at device 0.0 > on pci3 siba_bwn0: warn: multiple PCI(E) cores > siba_bwn0: unsupported coreid (USB 2.0 Device) > siba_bwn0: unsupported coreid (unknown) > siba_bwn0: unsupported coreid (Internal Memory) > siba_bwn0: unknown chipid 0x4322 for PLL & PMU init > bwn0 on siba_bwn0 > bwn0: unsupported PHY type (4) > device_attach: bwn0 attach returned 6 > > siba_bwn0 appears in devinfo(8) output but bwn(4) is nowhere to be > found. > > Any suggestions on how to get the card working? I guess you're out of luck here. Neither bwn(4) nor bwi(4) support the bcm4322 variant afaik (Please correct me if I'm wrong..). The only option left is ndis(4). -- Bernhard
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