Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 20:08:55 +0100 From: Miki <miki.bsd@gmail.com> To: Weongyo Jeong <weongyo@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver Message-ID: <261c29701003021108w1e6e3bbascf17102a3256e339@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100301201254.GG1295@weongyo> References: <20091223035331.GA1293@weongyo> <4b31cb29.9413f30a.5f4a.ffff8382@mx.google.com> <20100226005115.GP14937@weongyo> <261c29701002281145v357d86edl822f032e6e09a7fc@mail.gmail.com> <20100301201254.GG1295@weongyo>
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2010/3/1 Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.jeong@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 08:45:32PM +0100, Miki wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for the work ! >> >> I have some problems here when I try to create a wlan interface : >> bwn_v4_ucode5: could not load firmware image, error 2 >> bwn0: the fw file(bwn_v4_ucode5) not found > > Did you try to UP the interface withload loading bwn_v4_ucode.ko? =A0If > yes currently bwn(4) doesn't automatically load firmware module so you > need to do it by hand. > > =A0# kldload bwn_v4_ucode OK I have loaded bwn_v4_ucode before if_bwn and it works, my bad, I should have read the man page more carefully. > > The patch for this is ready to commit and it'll be happened soon. > >> I have installed bwn-firmware-kmod from ports but the only files I have = in >> /boot/modules are bwn_v4_lp_ucode.ko and bwn_v4_ucode.ko. So I tried to >> copy bwn_v4_ucode to bwn_v4_ucode5 and it seems to work : wlan0 is >> created, I can associate to an open Access Point and obtain a DHCP lease= . >> But if I try to do some network IO (browsing the web) the interface hang >> (I cannot obtain a lease anymore). > > I have a exact same device like you have but I didn't encounter this > issue. > > Are there any messages from bwn(4) when you the interface becomes hang? > One more question, after the interface hang, does the system be hang > also? I have no messages in the log (appart bwn0: need multicast update callback)= . In fact it's not a hang, it happens only with the AP that permits me to have a web access. I have another AP (sitting next to me) and I don't have the same behavior : I can have and renew my dhcp lease multiple times and configure the AP with= its web interface. With the "buggy" AP I can have a dhcp lease only once and no= thing more. If I destroy and recreate the wlan interface the same thing happens. I have no such a problem with if_bwi and this AP. > > One thing you can do is that trying the device with PIO mode not DMA > mode using the following tunable variable: > > =A0hw.bwn.usedma > > Its default value is 1 to enable DMA operation so if you set it 0, PIO > mode would be used and could see the message like below: > > =A0bwn0: PIO > > Could you please test with it? > Setting hw.bwn.usedma=3D0 in loader.conf make no differences by the way, I need to switch from if_bwn to if_bwi to make some test and post the results here, but I have this error message : firmware_register: cannot register image bwi_v3_b0g0initvals5, firmware table full! is this normal ? Thanks for your help !
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