From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 25 06:09:36 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A620F233 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 06:09:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-x233.google.com (mail-vc0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c03::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6467912D3 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 06:09:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f179.google.com with SMTP id ia6so2363635vcb.38 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:09:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=9o5lI9L0nEav8ehErjbbqf6pm0H4w2HDvBOZ2bAhFlo=; b=luVOOoXl704qzQ/cF4x1AGlQZ2+PXdmq20UHjKxP2Xzz6YEDBaaVxSlr3fIDmFL4Qi 4TLQAAXGja6Uw56Wqj/b5lyorgkO/C4cohtSk0+DuXD3p+v77Hau/cqhobz7vIj6uKvj wvH4IuLuVdkaQVdgDmz0xbHXAWiDoxx7FkXLuetffnvlz6GsxHdXv40PVs1G/xJh59CA aMj1FOu/SXNKlaf1TRJ3qCnDkcWer7+1vGP+VuIdLGtb2ddx/SMQ4mCgJWVl31cRxzkB 68M/FMl9tGdizsPehiNLkfela3RLgJi/BoyutCB7l/reZ8ZsPe56PwlbF72eDQlyM+SY Ielw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.221.2.138 with SMTP id nu10mr113485vcb.52.1390630175332; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:09:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.58.35.38 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:09:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:39:35 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Cannot get wireless to work From: Harshad D To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 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: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 06:09:36 -0000 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: 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 metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:26:5e:46:3e:ba nd6 options=29 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier re0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8209b 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 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 options=600003 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 nd6 options=21 wlan0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:26:5e:46:3e:ba nd6 options=29 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?