From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 25 06:32:51 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9CBF24BE; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 06:32:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-x231.google.com (mail-vc0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c03::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44353149D; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 06:32:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f177.google.com with SMTP id if11so2338539vcb.22 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:32:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=F623daSpKzdanH8DXchz9FF0gdnPYpsLRzcmtf6JbkQ=; b=GNTXLELuhUbHt93Y2ujxxQ2fXvVWchE7zkCTTjwX6QwpIMvoivlO+NbaRS4OnBKaJd pob4oYOzXJjzO8M0RdyoHi/n8AafzisWxbKIZZq4c+60I7v9K64WgMQ8O1sZUGb4Caeu fkSyNNYxNpjOdON6wcqxdOTAmwqG3HoW89NfQB58cJQXhbT+Z+fjalgxDPTHjZc6i3/h 4INI/Fve3ph3WcM2MMjD4qlvirKYTxfwSg2lOXzPlMZvquHDEDgD5zdKhLVRYN3Iamek F656XGc60Zqe9I9yaex2FXYLUjNVpdG73Esl4vET9X5DgQzvTZGm1cInz0CICFsuEBU3 rXSA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.58.123.70 with SMTP id ly6mr6406055veb.26.1390631570364; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:32:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.58.35.38 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:32:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:02:50 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Cannot get wireless to work From: Harshad D To: Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" 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 06:32:51 -0000 Hi Adrian, Yup, its the bwn-firmware-kmod port. I installed that, but no luck. On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > It's a port that you have to build from source. bwi-kmod or something? > > > -a > > On 24 January 2014 22:09, Harshad D wrote: > > 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: 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 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? > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >