Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:39:35 +0530 From: Harshad D <harshad.d@gmail.com> To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Cannot get wireless to work Message-ID: <CACJ4PNRzojJ7RQwpMPqD0_DBBMz4kgi6fAsaMqJY%2BUREoLLxHA@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
hello!
Hi all, first post here.
Installed FreeBSD for the first time on my laptop. Have followed the
Handbook and got most things like X, XFCE, X config etc working.
However, I am really having trouble trying to get wireless working. I have
tried the following till now:
This is an extract about the wireless hardware from [cmd]pciconf[/cmd]:
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY'
class = network
So, as per the Handbook, I should use the bwn (4) driver.
i have done the following till now:
Installed [file]bwn-firmware-kmod[/file] from ports
Added the following to [file]/boot/loader.conf[/file]
if_bwn_load="YES"
bwn_v4__lp_ucode_load="YES"
# if_bwi_load="YES"
wlan_scan_ap_load="YES"
wlan_scan_sta_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"[/code]
added this to rc.conf
wlans_bwn0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="ssid HSD DHCP"
****I am not sure about the DHCP part here. just something I have tried.
And tried all that's shown here [url]
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html[/url]
.
But still it doesn't work. ifconfig wlan0 up scan gives nothing:
root@BSDbox:~ # ifconfig wlan0 scan
root@BSDbox:~ #
dmesg output is:
root@BSDbox:~ # dmesg|tail
bwn0: the fw file(bwn_v4_lp_ucode15) not found
bwn-open_v4_lp_ucode15: could not load firmware image, error 2
bwn0: the fw file(bwn-open_v4_lp_ucode15) not found
ubt0: <Broadcom Corp HP Integrated Module, class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.65, addr
2> on usbus0
WARNING: attempt to domain_add(bluetooth) after domainfinalize()
WARNING: attempt to domain_add(netgraph) after domainfinalize()
bwn_v4_lp_ucode15: could not load firmware image, error 2
bwn0: the fw file(bwn_v4_lp_ucode15) not found
bwn-open_v4_lp_ucode15: could not load firmware image, error 2
bwn0: the fw file(bwn-open_v4_lp_ucode15) not found
ifconfig output:
root@BSDbox:~ # ifconfig
bwn0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
ether 00:26:5e:46:3e:ba
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
ether 00:23:5a:c6:da:5b
inet6 fe80::223:5aff:fec6:da5b%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet 192.168.0.104 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
wlan0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:26:5e:46:3e:ba
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier
ssid HSD channel 1 (2412 MHz 11b)
country US authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy OFF txpower 30 bmiss 7
scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7
roam:rate 1 wme bintval 0
I can see that the firmware file is not being loaded. How do I get it to
load? I checked the /boot/firmware folder and it's empty. So I manually
copied.fw files from the bwn ports directory, but that didn't work either.
I tried renaming the module files (.ko) in /boot/modules to what the OS is
looking for, but that failed too. I am almost at my wit's end now, and
don't know how to go on from here. What do I need to do?
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CACJ4PNRzojJ7RQwpMPqD0_DBBMz4kgi6fAsaMqJY%2BUREoLLxHA>