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Subject: Re: if_bwi on PowerBook G4
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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