From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 22 13:44:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C4FC1065695 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:44:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@insightbb.com) Received: from mxsf01.insightbb.com (mxsf01.insightbb.com [74.128.0.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C2A68FC1D for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:44:42 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.56,251,1280721600"; d="scan'208";a="947546474" Received: from unknown (HELO asav03.insightbb.com) ([172.31.249.123]) by mxsf01.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 22 Aug 2010 09:44:41 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjpOAPbGcExKgCiCPGdsb2JhbACEEoNWizQBAY0UDAEBAQE1LbgthTcE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.56,251,1280721600"; d="scan'208";a="156014899" Received: from 74-128-40-130.dhcp.insightbb.com (HELO laptop2.stevenfriedrich.org) ([74.128.40.130]) by asavout03.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 22 Aug 2010 09:44:41 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Steven Friedrich Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:44:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008220944.31080.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> Subject: New bwn driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:44:43 -0000 I have an HP pavilion zd825us which has a Broadcom ethernet that appears to be supported by the new bwn driver. I have, for several years now, been using the NDIS driver based on Project Evil. Since bwn came out in 8.1, I tried it and it pretty much works but I get a couple errors sporadically. Here are the dmesgs: Aug 21 11:39:29 laptop2 kernel: siba_bwn0: mem 0xc8206000-0xc8207fff irq 17 at device 3.0 on pci11 Aug 21 11:39:29 laptop2 kernel: bwn0 on siba_bwn0 Aug 21 11:39:29 laptop2 kernel: bwn0: WLAN (chipid 0x4318 rev 9) PHY (analog 3 type 2 rev 7) RADIO (manuf 0x17f ver 0x2050 rev 8) Aug 21 11:39:29 laptop2 kernel: bwn0: DMA (32 bits) Aug 21 11:39:29 laptop2 kernel: bwn0: [FILTER] Aug 21 11:39:29 laptop2 kernel: bwn0: firmware version (rev 410 patch 2160 date 0x751a time 0x7c0a) Aug 21 11:39:29 laptop2 kernel: bwn0: need multicast update callback Aug 20 17:01:37 laptop2 kernel: bwn0: RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x2) Occasionally, a message appears on the console indicating that mDNSResponder had an issue: Aug 20 19:45:42 laptop2 mDNSResponder: mDNSPlatformSendUDP got error 51 (Network is unreachable) sending packet to 224.0.0.251 on interface 127.0.0.1/lo0/2 Aug 21 11:39:56 laptop2 mDNSResponder: mDNSResponder (Engineering Build) (Aug 4 2010 09:50:01) starting And when I use the NDIS driver, I see this lock not held... Aug 21 11:39:56 laptop2 mDNSResponder: mDNS_AddDNSServer: Lock not held! mDNS_busy (0) mDNS_reentrancy (0)