From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 14:23:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11BCD1065670 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:23:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B8B08FC17 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:23:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so5350449bwz.13 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:23:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.123.140 with SMTP id p12mr5325390bkr.176.1296483828157; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:23:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from jessie.localnet (p5B2EC39D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.46.195.157]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x38sm10285022bkj.1.2011.01.31.06.23.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:23:46 -0800 (PST) Sender: Bernhard Schmidt From: Bernhard Schmidt To: Fraser Tweedale Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:23:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.32-28-generic; KDE/4.4.5; i686; ; ) References: <20110131131400.GA71793@bacardi.wooloowin.frase.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20110131131400.GA71793@bacardi.wooloowin.frase.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201101311523.36269.bschmidt@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bwn(4) support for BCM4322 (MacBook WiFi) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bschmidt@freebsd.org List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:23:50 -0000 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: 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