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Date:      Sat, 28 May 2016 11:02:41 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn_Jonare?= <bjorn.jonare@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bwn updates - now BCM4321, BCM4322
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hi,

I'll go add some more debugging to the attach side of things. It does
that when it doesn't recognise the phy, and that's silly.



-adrian


On 28 May 2016 at 06:34, Bj=C3=B6rn Jonare <bjorn.jonare@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First let me say that I very much appreciate your work on bwn. Broadcom d=
evices are, alas all too common :( Anyway I dug an old iMac out of storage =
and installed a recent CURRENT (r300836) since I knew the wifi chip in it t=
o be some variant of the BCM4322.
>
> After uncommenting all needed lines (?) in the Makefile regarding GNU PHY=
 support I loaded bwn_v4_ucode,  bwn_v4_n_ucode and if_bwn. Upon checking d=
mesg I got this:
>
> siba_bwn0: <Broadcom BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless> mem 0xd0200000-0xd02=
03fff,0xd0000000-0xd00fffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
> siba_bwn0: warn: multiple PCI(E) cores
> siba_bwn0: unsupported coreid (USB 1.1 Host)
> bwn0 on siba_bwn0
> bwn0: failed
> device_attach: bwn0 attach returned 6
>
>
>
> So, the driver doesn=E2=80=99t attach :(
>
> Since my understanding of drivers is well, lacking, is there anything I c=
ould do to get this specific version of BCM4322 to work[1]? I would be glad=
 to provide any information needed.
>
>
> [1] That is to get the driver to attach. I have no illusions regarding fu=
nctionality, this is after all a Broadcom chipset!
>
>
> --
> /H=C3=A4lsningar Bj=C3=B6rn
>
>
>
> On Thursday 19 May 2016 at 09:01, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
>> Hiya,
>>
>> I managed to get the BCM4321 and BCM4322 working. You need to load
>> bwn_v4_n_ucode for BCM4322 and then it should "just work".
>>
>> BCM4321 also works on bwn_v4_n_ucode - it uses the same newer ucode API.
>>
>> You can't load bwn_v4_n_ucode and bwn_v4_lp_ucode just yet - I need to
>> address that.
>>
>> Let me know if you can test out either of these chips!
>>
>>
>> -adrian
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