Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:18:48 +0000 From: Aditya Sarawgi <sarawgi.aditya@gmail.com> To: Weongyo Jeong <weongyo@freebsd.org> Cc: attilio@freebsd.org, spikey.it@gmail.com, gnemmi@gmail.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver Message-ID: <4b31cb29.9413f30a.5f4a.ffff8382@mx.google.com> In-Reply-To: <20091223035331.GA1293@weongyo> References: <20091223035331.GA1293@weongyo>
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:53:31PM -0800, Weongyo Jeong wrote: > Hello, > > Now bwn(4) is available at the public and waiting test and review. The > status of this driver is *alpha* so could make panics, warnings and > errors. Please let me know if you encounter problems. > > The following NICs all I have are only tested on the little endian 64bit > machine and big endian 32bit machine. > > - Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless > - Broadcom BCM4318 802.11b/g Wireless > > I tested basic RX, TX and WPA association as STA mode and checked it > worked. > > As you might know there are still a lot of TODO in the driver so you > could see some verbose messages during testing so please ignore or let > me know it makes problems. > > == How to build and load == > > # cd /usr/src/sys > # fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~weongyo/bwn_20091222.tar.gz > # tar xzf bwn_20091222.tar.gz > # cd modules/ssb > # make && make install > # cd ../.. > # cd modules/bwn > # make && make install > # cd somewhere > # fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~weongyo/bwn_ports_20091222.tar.gz > # tar xzf bwn_ports_20091222.tar.gz > # cd sysutils/b43-fwcutter > # make install clean > # cd ../.. > # cd net/bwn-firmware-kmod > # make install clean > # > # kldload ssb > # kldload bwn_v4_ucode > # kldload if_bwn > > regards, > Weongyo Jeong > Hi, The driver doesn't work with BCM4315, here's what dmesg shows ssb0: <Broadcom BCM4315 802.11b/g Wireless> mem 0xf4000000-0xf4003fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci6 bwn0 on ssb0 bwn0: unsupported PHY type (5) device_attach: bwn0 attach returned 6 -- Aditya Sarawgi
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