Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 17:43:34 +1000 From: Brett Wiggins <bawig1@gmail.com> To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Updating bwn to support newer chipsets Message-ID: <338149a3-d576-06a0-ba87-64f6e55f7c6c@gmail.com>
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Hi everyone,
I'm replying to a message from April 07 2015 which was calling for
people to help get the bwn driver to support BCM4331 adapters. The
message is provided below. I am happy to help with code or testing. I'm
dual booting a Macbook Pro 10,1 with OS X and Freebsd 10.3-RELEASE, my
wireless adapter is a BCM4331.
If anyone know of progress on this or needs help please let me know.
Brett.
Updating bwn to support newer chipsets
*Felix Friedlander* felixphew0 at gmail.com
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Hello all,
I am trying to expand the bwn driver to support some newer-model Broadcom chips, like the BCM4331 in my machine. These chips require newer firmware, and so I have modified bwn-firmware-kmod to use a newer firmware. However, I do not have a device with one of the chips currently supported, so I cannot be sure that this change won't break things. Do any of you have a device that you are willing to try with the new firmware?
The changes are quite simple:
--- Makefile.orig 2014-01-27 08:52:12.000000000 +1100
+++ Makefile 2015-04-07 08:31:46.000000000 +1000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# $FreeBSD: head/net/bwn-firmware-kmod/Makefile 341294 2014-01-26 21:52:12Z bapt $
PORTNAME= bwn-firmware
-PORTVERSION= 0.1.0
+PORTVERSION= 0.2.0
CATEGORIES= net
MASTER_SITES= http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/ \
http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/
@@ -36,11 +36,11 @@
WRKSRC= ${WRKDIR}
FWNAME= bwn_v4
FWFILE= broadcom-wl-${FWVERSION}.tar.bz2
-FWVERSION= 4.150.10.5
+FWVERSION= 5.100.138
KMODNAME= ${FWNAME}_ucode
FWNAME_LP= bwn_v4_lp
FWFILE_LP= broadcom-wl-${FWVERSION_LP}.tar.bz2
-FWVERSION_LP= 4.178.10.4
+FWVERSION_LP= 5.100.138
KMODNAME_LP= ${FWNAME_LP}_ucode
PLIST_SUB= KMODNAME="${KMODNAME}" \
KMODNAME_LP="${KMODNAME_LP}"
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
tar xjf ${DISTDIR}/${FWFILE}
mkdir -p ${WRKSRC}/bg
b43-fwcutter -w ${WRKSRC}/bg \
- ${WRKSRC}/broadcom-wl-${FWVERSION}/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o
+ ${WRKSRC}/broadcom-wl-${FWVERSION}/linux/wl_apsta.o
${TOUCH} ${WRKSRC}/bg/v4/ucode.fw
@${ECHO_CMD} "KMOD= ${KMODNAME}" > ${WRKSRC}/bg/v4/Makefile
--- distinfo.orig 2014-01-23 02:30:13.000000000 +1100
+++ distinfo 2015-04-07 08:37:10.000000000 +1000
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
SIZE (broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2) = 3888794
SHA256 (broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2) = 32f6ad98facbb9045646fdc8b54bb03086d204153253f9c65d0234a5d90ae53f
SIZE (broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2) = 5986780
+SHA256 (broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2) = f1e7067aac5b62b67b8b6e4c517990277804339ac16065eb13c731ff909ae46f
Any help would be much appreciated.
--
Felix Friedlander <felixphew0 at gmail.com
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