Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:56:50 +0000 From: Aditya Sarawgi <sarawgi.aditya@gmail.com> To: Weongyo Jeong <weongyo@freebsd.org> Cc: attilio@freebsd.org, spikey.it@gmail.com, gnemmi@gmail.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver Message-ID: <4b8ab56d.9413f30a.75df.ffffc0b9@mx.google.com> In-Reply-To: <20091223195134.GC1293@weongyo> References: <20091223035331.GA1293@weongyo> <4b31cb29.9413f30a.5f4a.ffff8382@mx.google.com> <20091223195134.GC1293@weongyo>
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:51:34AM -0800, Weongyo Jeong wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 08:18:48AM +0000, Aditya Sarawgi wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:53:31PM -0800, Weongyo Jeong wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Now bwn(4) is available at the public and waiting test and review. The > > > status of this driver is *alpha* so could make panics, warnings and > > > errors. Please let me know if you encounter problems. > > > > > > The following NICs all I have are only tested on the little endian 64bit > > > machine and big endian 32bit machine. > > > > > > - Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless > > > - Broadcom BCM4318 802.11b/g Wireless > > > > > > I tested basic RX, TX and WPA association as STA mode and checked it > > > worked. > > > > > > As you might know there are still a lot of TODO in the driver so you > > > could see some verbose messages during testing so please ignore or let > > > me know it makes problems. > > > > > > == How to build and load == > > > > > > # cd /usr/src/sys > > > # fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~weongyo/bwn_20091222.tar.gz > > > # tar xzf bwn_20091222.tar.gz > > > # cd modules/ssb > > > # make && make install > > > # cd ../.. > > > # cd modules/bwn > > > # make && make install > > > # cd somewhere > > > # fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~weongyo/bwn_ports_20091222.tar.gz > > > # tar xzf bwn_ports_20091222.tar.gz > > > # cd sysutils/b43-fwcutter > > > # make install clean > > > # cd ../.. > > > # cd net/bwn-firmware-kmod > > > # make install clean > > > # > > > # kldload ssb > > > # kldload bwn_v4_ucode > > > # kldload if_bwn > > > > > > regards, > > > Weongyo Jeong > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > The driver doesn't work with BCM4315, here's what dmesg shows > > > > ssb0: <Broadcom BCM4315 802.11b/g Wireless> mem 0xf4000000-0xf4003fff > > irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci6 > > bwn0 on ssb0 > > bwn0: unsupported PHY type (5) > > device_attach: bwn0 attach returned 6 > > I see that your device has LP-PHY instead of A/B/G/N PHYs so currently > it's not supported by bwn(4). > > AFAIK linux has a weak but working implementation so we could refer to > other Open Sources. > > regards, > Weongyo Jeong > Hi, It still doesn't work, when I try to do ifconfig bwn0 scan I get ifconfig: unable to get the scan results The device is getting recognized properly here's the dmesg siba_bwn0: <Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g Wireless> mem 0xf4000000-0xf4003fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci6 bwn0 on siba_bwn0 bwn0: WLAN (chipid 0x4312 rev 15) PHY (analog 6 type 5 rev 1) RADIO (manuf 0x17f ver 0x2062 rev 2) bwn0: DMA (64 bits) bwn0: Using 1 MSI messages bwn0: [FILTER] I have loaded the following modules bwn_v4_ucode.ko if_bwn.ko siba_bwn.ko -- Aditya Sarawgi
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