From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 23 19:51:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4970A106566C; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:51:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from weongyo.jeong@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com (mail-qy0-f176.google.com [209.85.221.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D57178FC15; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:51:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk6 with SMTP id 6so3243550qyk.3 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:51:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:from:date:to:cc :subject:message-id:reply-to:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent:organization:x-operation-sytem; bh=AvF11gNbXYGWLRYCq6k3FrkhhsfH8J+WU+TzH0tras4=; b=XKA8uJ3cQIXUaNkgl8pPUMXP4eptFK9W4daMHcApMRmF1l6Mqxd+KhKNE5YtaAPmCt F5ibLGSy6xZL1u/R3yOq6FNUaaCz7Hf3ja9r3v7P40QxV/si7Gta4lxYwF82qosmE2jF 7wE4new7Sb3a0c/7dEHJPtikiTl0xqJDDZC5E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:date:to:cc:subject:message-id:reply-to:mail-followup-to :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent:organization:x-operation-sytem; b=NvoihVzE9GruiOHctnnS9QOye8HnRTyEh/92RV3jTf6lD46aX918HaiGw4PK8Y1g6y nv15OI/cylncQgq9z6FHOsI08DrHzMajofUp6GcDGWOecnwYloyHb8mDlqYuTyk/m0j8 6kmBHs5xMad+K9bBepw9GpDMZjDOQ0IfwgmuQ= Received: by 10.224.15.206 with SMTP id l14mr5527025qaa.117.1261597897091; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:51:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from weongyo ([174.35.1.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm21345271qwg.48.2009.12.23.11.51.35 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by weongyo (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:51:34 -0800 From: Weongyo Jeong Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:51:34 -0800 To: Aditya Sarawgi Message-ID: <20091223195134.GC1293@weongyo> Mail-Followup-To: Aditya Sarawgi , current@freebsd.org, gnemmi@gmail.com, attilio@freebsd.org, spikey.it@gmail.com References: <20091223035331.GA1293@weongyo> <4b31cb29.9413f30a.5f4a.ffff8382@mx.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4b31cb29.9413f30a.5f4a.ffff8382@mx.google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: CDNetworks. X-Operation-Sytem: FreeBSD 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 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Weongyo Jeong List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:51:38 -0000 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: 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