Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:27:02 +1300 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx> Cc: Little Bhudda <lbhudda@googlemail.com>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac Mini G4 1.5GHz Broadcomm bwi BCM4318 problems Message-ID: <4B311D86.1030400@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200912220805.59252.john@baldwin.cx> References: <644B6D20-37A0-49CB-8BE8-5E3E67C7C379@googlemail.com> <200912220805.59252.john@baldwin.cx>
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John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 22 December 2009 4:53:50 am Little Bhudda wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I am trying to get the Airport Extreme (Broadcom BCM4318) to work >> under FreeBSD. This was working fine under Debian, but I'm having some >> problems getting it to work here. >> >> First of all, adding the line to /boot/loader.conf, as the bwi man(4) >> page says, did not give me the device. I tried to find the bwi kernel >> module, but couldn't find it. Maybe I was looking for the wrong name? >> >> Then, I decided to go for option 2 and rebuilt the kernel with the >> devices defined as mentioned in the bwi manpage. That went ok. I also >> built and installed the bwi-firmware-kmod as per the manpage's >> instructions. >> >> When I boot, the device gets reconised, but the loading of the >> firmware fails with the error message "cannot register image >> bwi_v3_pcm5, firmware table full!" after which the MAC init fails. >> >> A copy of the relevant entries in the /var/log/messages is attached. >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> > > I suspect no one has tested bwi on ppc yet and that is why the module is not > built by default. If you are successful in getting it working then it can be > enabled by default easily enough by editing sys/modules/Makefile. The error > message you are getting seems odd. The firmware table has room for 30 > firmware images by default, and I find it hard to believe that you have over > 30 firmware images. Can you fire up kgdb and run 'p firmware_table' and mail > the output? > > I use it on my G4 iBook, and it at least works better than that. I have a few reliability problems with it, where it will stop being able to transmit packets after a few minutes, but I suspect those are MI. -Nathanhome | help
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