From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Mar 3 03:29:40 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 18716CF6D4B for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2017 03:29:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cary@SDF.org) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.232]) (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 D6DBE1CF3 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2017 03:29:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cary@SDF.org) Received: from [67.49.10.59] ([67.49.10.59:55969] helo=bsdfull.Belkin) by cdptpa-omsmta02 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id 92/D9-16480-023E8B85; Fri, 03 Mar 2017 03:29:37 +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> <58B8B4D9.1050407@SDF.org> <903d6890-d58b-c8f8-1168-04365fc5e3f2@columbus.rr.com> From: Cary Message-ID: <58B8E31F.80204@SDF.org> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 19:29:35 -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: <903d6890-d58b-c8f8-1168-04365fc5e3f2@columbus.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.7:25 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 03:29:40 -0000 Baho Utot wrote: > > > On 3/2/2017 7:12 PM, Cary wrote: >> 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. >> > Then it does not work. > The device is there but on the firmware load it has a problem gives me firmware > state (28713) error that repeats until you reboot. The error starts whenever > you bring the interface up with ifconfig and doesn't stop > bwn(4) man page has examples of how to to create a wlan device with ifconfig(8). -- cary@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org ------------------------------