Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:07:38 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: if_bwi on PowerBook G4 Message-ID: <CAJ-VmombwO7PjaMaHifVE%2BUXwYp-umWko=sH=8eQZTX0t8p2Vw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D05F135-FAD8-4C15-A942-D99F4F552FF6@gmail.com> References: <4D05F135-FAD8-4C15-A942-D99F4F552FF6@gmail.com>
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On 22 September 2011 07:36, Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get a Linksys wireless card working on my PowerBook G4 (PC > card, not built-in airport), and running into problems. =A0I've loaded th= e > firmware, but when I load the module, it prints the following messages, a= nd > won't try again: > > bwi0: <Broadcom BCM4318 802.11b/g Wireless Lan> mem 0x88000000-0x88001fff > irq 58 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 > bwi0: BBP: id 0x4318, rev 0x2, pkg 2 > bwi0: MAC: rev 9 > bwi0: PHY: type 2, rev 7, ver 3 > bwi0: RF: manu 0x17f, type 0x2050, rev 8 > bwi0: invalid antenna gain in sprom > > I've googled, and seen successes on PowerPC, but not with CardBus (which > isn't enabled by default, so could contribute), and seen reports with the > same error message, but followed by the antenna gain being read > successfully. =A0I'm clueless as to how to proceed with this. I'd start by looking at the source to see why this is the case. It's possible there are endian-ness issues in the driver; I've seen people with issues w/ the broadcom code in Linux when run on PPC. Adrian
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