From owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Wed Nov 16 04:33:50 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@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 9430EC4485D for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 04:33:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-x234.google.com (mail-it0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 68DA61C9F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 04:33:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-x234.google.com with SMTP id c20so190525028itb.0 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:33:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc; bh=whl294VBzpaKboi0v6zdaJFikxSc1mwe2Nrx80j6LsM=; b=sLjmKoB046tD01ZciRwcrcXrnwgWRx9VlLFZT9dJTIrlWpqnZFbae5qNLbb6N/uN6Z a96IdoVFDE25W6eyTV4twyk3JXt9nbez90VbUDnOKBiNeVQffSkRc3DXtxxTKg+jLXy1 mBa3Tfu+eedHqBAwP5SUYz6QMxoKvH7u8NVlBmSIzbR7ieCuk3ZNJa4AzDxegY09HaEC oyD+Gj26lI/L/Jg9QUm6kcYfPNfTYKMZzXzs1oHFCHbCPLJsxMGZUB1YlHwC4RoHLEZT 9iZFHON/ryQEQACpxTUmbOj2d7otn3/2H9MIkUsoLRMkuLW44SC/C6VJWBjg10dbaGlg bPQw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=whl294VBzpaKboi0v6zdaJFikxSc1mwe2Nrx80j6LsM=; b=kblN3Jhfp+VYoV+bc+46whbJ+ymaBqjE9c5mndjTme9be0OUh3QUwreJJvQM3Yya23 1URqTnYlzXwre21lnsNLpTjgUKxO1+YRW72ekPAYzkf9f8278YwnNTJHdmMfBps2q2qC jqsuIWDja/51wumuoNOUtQREKd6O/UB30sGBa7wyJDeZYtsZnDEs/7croJhyDNsMYX6D yLcGp/l/B3z2nTExRlKLsw0oOxjB7B0CQVXmt+Rikk/7hrlhztADToHbgRejlydP04cL rm/3B7Aym0RI7/kn2ucP2KdPUV6uC0GN3iRYK8w9mWXJzT1QFYoYis2Jvex5W/7F2w/q BZQg== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngve7BUztKV0xevgFoQRV31eujdGpysgWdglycpivBbhG9Uram9RfvIBB/Cl81Rb8s5JZNTcZhFJPeDnZOA== X-Received: by 10.107.36.144 with SMTP id k138mr1169789iok.177.1479270829555; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:33:49 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.36.39.134 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:33:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Adrian Chadd Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:33:48 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: aqY5_aXrtiePNuDEHiJOZ4z6ako Message-ID: Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips To: Andy Mender Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 04:33:50 -0000 hi! You need to compile with a specific kernel option added. add this: options BWN_GPL_PHY and recompile. See if that works! -a On 10 November 2016 at 22:17, Andy Mender wrote: > Fellow FreeBSD users and developers, > > I just returned to FreeBSD after some light distro-hopping and wanted to > test > drivers for the Broadcom wireless BCM4322 chip. bwi doesn't work at all, as > it does not recognize this chip (no surprises there), however bwn recognizes > the chip and both siba and bwn get attached. However, the driver throws some > errors and detaches with exit code 6. Regardless, I feel like there is some > hope > in getting this to work! > > As I understood from previous discussions, Adrian is working on the bwn > driver. > How is it coming along? I know that me and a lot of other FreeBSD users are > running FreeBSD on MacBooks (either natively or via virtualization) and it > would > be a major breakthrough if we could get the pesky Broadcom NICs to > cooperate :). > > I would be more than willing to participate in a "pilot program", should > end-user > testing me of importance. > > Best regards, > Andy > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"