From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 31 21:25:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD801065679 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:25:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmitriy@lebedew.ru) Received: from lebedew.ru (lebedew.ru [82.146.43.108]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07EA28FC18 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:25:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [77.243.98.202] (account dmitriy@lebedew.ru) by lebedew.ru (CommuniGate Pro XIMSS 5.2.15 _community_) with XIMSS id 4533977 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:25:37 +0300 X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro Pronto 2.7.2 From: "Dmitriy A Lebedev" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:25:37 +0300 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain;charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: bwi driver issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:25:40 -0000 Hi All! I'm using { PCI_VENDOR_BROADCOM, 0x4320,"Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless Lan"} network card. I have a little problem with bwi wireless driver at FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 (the same problem was at RC1 too). It doesn't worK for me: According to man bwi instructions, I have added if_bwi_load="YES" into /boot/defaults/loader.conf, and install /usr/ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod port. Next, i have ran pciconf -lvcb to check hardware, and found the following output: none4@pci0:1:4:0: class=0x028000 card=0x12f8103c chip=0x432014e4 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = '802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (BCM4309)' class = network bar [10] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xff7fc000, size 8192, enabled So, the hardware is recognized by system. Next, I have tried to find new bwi interface at ifconfig, but it wasn't appeared there. The results of kldload if_bwi were very strange: can't load if_bwi: No such file or directory Finally, there is no the appropriate file at /boot/kernel. So.. I suppose I need to use another method from man and compile this driver into kernel. But there is very clear information at man bwi instructions: " Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): if_bwi_load="YES" And it doesn't work. Is it a some kind of bug, or mistake in documentation? Thanks in advance. Sincerely yours, Dmitriy A Lebedev