Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 16:34:52 +1000 From: Felix Friedlander <felixphew0@gmail.com> To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Updating bwn to support newer chipsets Message-ID: <20150407063452.GA918@phewbox>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello all, I am trying to expand the bwn driver to support some newer-model Broadcom chips, like the BCM4331 in my machine. These chips require newer firmware, and so I have modified bwn-firmware-kmod to use a newer firmware. However, I do not have a device with one of the chips currently supported, so I cannot be sure that this change won't break things. Do any of you have a device that you are willing to try with the new firmware? The changes are quite simple: --- Makefile.orig 2014-01-27 08:52:12.000000000 +1100 +++ Makefile 2015-04-07 08:31:46.000000000 +1000 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # $FreeBSD: head/net/bwn-firmware-kmod/Makefile 341294 2014-01-26 21:52:12Z bapt $ PORTNAME= bwn-firmware -PORTVERSION= 0.1.0 +PORTVERSION= 0.2.0 CATEGORIES= net MASTER_SITES= http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/ \ http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/ @@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ WRKSRC= ${WRKDIR} FWNAME= bwn_v4 FWFILE= broadcom-wl-${FWVERSION}.tar.bz2 -FWVERSION= 4.150.10.5 +FWVERSION= 5.100.138 KMODNAME= ${FWNAME}_ucode FWNAME_LP= bwn_v4_lp FWFILE_LP= broadcom-wl-${FWVERSION_LP}.tar.bz2 -FWVERSION_LP= 4.178.10.4 +FWVERSION_LP= 5.100.138 KMODNAME_LP= ${FWNAME_LP}_ucode PLIST_SUB= KMODNAME="${KMODNAME}" \ KMODNAME_LP="${KMODNAME_LP}" @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ tar xjf ${DISTDIR}/${FWFILE} mkdir -p ${WRKSRC}/bg b43-fwcutter -w ${WRKSRC}/bg \ - ${WRKSRC}/broadcom-wl-${FWVERSION}/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o + ${WRKSRC}/broadcom-wl-${FWVERSION}/linux/wl_apsta.o ${TOUCH} ${WRKSRC}/bg/v4/ucode.fw @${ECHO_CMD} "KMOD= ${KMODNAME}" > ${WRKSRC}/bg/v4/Makefile --- distinfo.orig 2014-01-23 02:30:13.000000000 +1100 +++ distinfo 2015-04-07 08:37:10.000000000 +1000 @@ -2,3 +2,5 @@ SIZE (broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2) = 3888794 SHA256 (broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2) = 32f6ad98facbb9045646fdc8b54bb03086d204153253f9c65d0234a5d90ae53f SIZE (broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2) = 5986780 +SHA256 (broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2) = f1e7067aac5b62b67b8b6e4c517990277804339ac16065eb13c731ff909ae46f Any help would be much appreciated. -- Felix Friedlander <felixphew0@gmail.com> [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABCAAGBQJVI3qCAAoJEF/vKV6HaeOBucMP/1Ag2T89YIYHiqGHpp3WX8DN hNmSgZnqzQA7+z+GJkTJfWD420Jf+sZ5VnQw3CWJY24UioBbfjFDphFV1dhWFUCk 45bSaNR1Qzo7KOialfGJa9MgS5VhRlggKh/DARMMesILiKYZciJrHkf31QJy4xZj 3sTRTf/ZRXtPZ3rwbE1+JmSs30R52znEMRnQwC3UVPs3MnXNgVyPqPzgJeTVh97y h5xHkN7VyZ+DMIinBWyILsSsYLeMjnZmP0G6+6FXXHO3HtOjRKHj4Lrh2pXr7wb7 0kt+fBXdJZHxVR8yHWvmeSMS3g9iQcOn7E70JJ5p4C7DrwjQk0Lls/lxttQkkfeu yvU1phQNUQoJCz9wgTV3Z6NhIBhXaYj0BtRwytnkQyoJrerUpxnB3imHBCbuwuf5 0vC3vJe9F16kmi9Mt9A5TippD0xDtI8D46QiVT+rlLs/VVZv+5Yb54ktlZ8LFO54 LqRmtYRA+Fg6PTCT+B3BR4jlr6SkCD8+vSQzvBa7aG7ic5bB1OCb3kEI4aHvFOLq wnQVy8zhf6EfLG0YWfhFsYr8XJYIH1qmmx9cSoj8kjxcw2/CTRTb19ORpW6Ntti9 8VINV0WktoD9MyjUXLQePL6S+Di5lw1aF3N6UIvWT2SRL+A+pJfQ4PJzEpRVNzpV 6Z/CpUVi3GKk7Ge9Cd+l =l+nQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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