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Subject: Re: bwi(4) BCM4315 support?
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In message: <19e9a5dc0909180646g1e2a2e50wde781a16523bc743@mail.gmail.co=
m>
            Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> writes:
: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Ian Freislich <ianf@clue.co.za> wrot=
e:
: =

: > Hi
: >
: > I have the following card:
: >
: > bwi0@pci0:1:0:0:        class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x1508103c chip=3D0=
x431514e4
: > rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00
: >    vendor     =3D 'Broadcom Corporation'
: >    device     =3D 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'
: >    class      =3D network
: >
: > By playing a little bit with the if_bwi source, I've managed to get=

: > it detected to this point, but I obviously don't know what I'm
: > doing:
: >
: > bwi0: <Broadcom BCM4315 802.11b/g Wireless Lan> mem 0xfeafc000-0xfe=
afffff
: > irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
: > bwi0: [ITHREAD]
: > bwi0: BBP: id 0x4312, rev 0x1, pkg 0
: > bwi0: MAC: rev 15
: > bwi0: PHY: type 5, rev 1, ver 6
: > bwi0: RF: manu 0x17f, type 0x0002, rev 0
: > bwi0: only BCM2050 RF is supported for 11G PHY
: > device_attach: bwi0 attach returned 6
: >
: > Is there any thing I can try?  Is there support on the horizon or
: > should I try and replace it with a supported card?
: >
: > Ian
: >
: =

: Hi there Ian !
: Maybe you should get in touch with paradox from the forum.freebsd.org=
 ... I
: think he=B4s working on it and on other chips too ... you might want =
to take a
: look in here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D2477&page=3D=
4

I've also been working with paradox to understand his patch set and to
integrate it into the tree...

However, did you load the firmware, as described in the bwi man page:

     This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work.  T=
he
     ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod port needs to be installed before ifco=
nfig(8)
     will work.



Warner