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[49.199.84.84]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b90sm4926152pfc.29.2016.09.01.00.43.52 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:44:04 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org From: Brett Wiggins Subject: RE: Updating bwn to support newer chipsets Message-ID: <338149a3-d576-06a0-ba87-64f6e55f7c6c@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 17:43:34 +1000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 07:44:05 -0000 Hi everyone, I'm replying to a message from April 07 2015 which was calling for people to help get the bwn driver to support BCM4331 adapters. The message is provided below. I am happy to help with code or testing. I'm dual booting a Macbook Pro 10,1 with OS X and Freebsd 10.3-RELEASE, my wireless adapter is a BCM4331. If anyone know of progress on this or needs help please let me know. Brett. Updating bwn to support newer chipsets *Felix Friedlander* felixphew0 at gmail.com /Tue Apr 7 06:35:13 UTC 2015/ * Previous message (by thread): hostapd with wpa * Next message (by thread): Updating bwn to support newer chipsets * *Messages sorted by:* [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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