From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Mar 3 00:12:12 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B3ECF6A32 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2017 00:12:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cary@SDF.org) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "cdptpa-oedge", Issuer "cdptpa-oedge" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ADE691FE3 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2017 00:12:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cary@SDF.org) Received: from [67.49.10.59] ([67.49.10.59:61039] helo=bsdfull.Belkin) by cdptpa-omsmta01 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id A0/FE-03423-AD4B8B85; Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:12:10 +0000 Subject: Re: Firmware To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <58B889FA.6060006@SDF.org> <58B8A303.1050701@SDF.org> <0299093b-0dc4-5ee1-8810-971c51fe8044@columbus.rr.com> From: Cary Message-ID: <58B8B4D9.1050407@SDF.org> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 16:12:09 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 SeaMonkey/2.39 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0299093b-0dc4-5ee1-8810-971c51fe8044@columbus.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.6:25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:12:13 -0000 Baho Utot wrote: > On 3/2/2017 5:56 PM, Cary wrote: >> Baho Utot wrote: >>> >>> On 03/02/17 16:09, Cary wrote: >>>> To build a driver for bcm43XX ndisgen(8) is worth a try. If you have not >>>> seen it >>>> before, here is a post that gives a quick summary. >>>> http://blog.cochard.me/2012/10/using-bcm4313-wireless-chip-under.html >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Thanks I will have a look at it. >>> >>> I have /boot/modules/bwn_v4_lp_ucode.ko and >>> /boot/modules/bwn_v4_ucode.ko >>> >>> But dmesg says that the firmware cannot be found and it then gives me the >>> following: >>> bwn0: warn: firmware state (28713) >>> >>> I am looking at the site you posted now. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >> What I've found is that the native FreeBSD driver for your wlan interface may >> work. Unfortunately, it does not support secure encryption. Only WEP is >> supported. >> > > I am not following you here, are you saying that there is a native freebsd > driver for the BCM4311? > If so can you point me to it? > > The one you are using, bwn(4), is it. The kernel message indicates that there is a device, bwn0 , that was initialized by the bwn(4) FreeBSD driver. -- cary@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org ------------------------------