Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 17:24:21 +0200 From: Victor <vdemart@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Broadcom BCM4321 Wireless connection configuration problems Message-ID: <67CC1117-933C-460A-9326-18A4823B5D78@gmail.com>
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I'm trying to make the wifi connection of my old macbook (2007) work =
but, at the moment, to no avail. I'm stranded and perplexed!
Context:
FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE #2: Fri Sep 1 16:02:16 CEST 2017 =
root@bsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL amd64
The kernel MYKERNEL was compiled adding only:
options BWN_GPL_PHY
device firmware
I installed from the ports net/bwn-firmware-kmod
In /boot/loader.conf I have=20
if_bwn=3D"YES"
In /etc/rc.conf as usual
wlans_bwn0=3D"wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0=3D"WPA DHCP"
..........................
The wifi chip is a broadcom BCM4321 as you can see from the extract of =
/var/log/messages
...............................
siba_bwn0: <Broadcom BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless> mem =
0xd0500000-0xd0503fff at device 0.0 on pci1
siba_bwn0: warn: multiple PCI(E) cores
siba_bwn0: unsupported coreid (USB 1.1 Host)
bwn0 on siba_bwn0
bwn0: WLAN (chipid 0x4321 rev 12) PHY (analog 5 type 4 rev 2) RADIO =
(manuf 0x17f ver 0x2055 rev 4)
bwn0: DMA (64 bits)
bwn0: Note: compiled with BWN_GPL_PHY; includes GPLv2 code
bwn0: Using 1 MSI messages
Sep 1 16:36:00 bsd wpa_supplicant[1290]: Successfully initialized =
wpa_supplicant
wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:1e:c2:ac:de:a3
bwn0: ucode fw: ucode11
bwn_v4_ucode11: could not load firmware image, error 2
bwn0: the fw file(bwn_v4_ucode11) not found
bwn0: ucode fw: ucode11
bwn-open_v4_ucode11: could not load firmware image, error 2
bwn0: the fw file(bwn-open_v4_ucode11) not found
.........................................................
You see that there is a problem with the firmware image. Ifconfig shows
% ifconfig
msk0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu =
1500
=
options=3Dc011a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
ether 00:1f:5b:e8:96:50
hwaddr 00:1f:5b:e8:96:50
nd6 options=3D29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
lo0: flags=3D8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=3D600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128=20
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2=20
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000=20
nd6 options=3D21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
groups: lo=20
wlan0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu =
1500
ether 00:1e:c2:ac:de:a3
hwaddr 00:1e:c2:ac:de:a3
nd6 options=3D29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier
ssid "" channel 165 (5825 MHz 11a)
regdomain FCC country US authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy =
MIXED
deftxkey UNDEF txpower 23 bmiss 7 mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 =
scanvalid 60
wme roaming MANUAL bintval 0
groups: wlan=20
BESIDES .... the man page of bwn declares that
BWN(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual =
BWN(4)
NAME
bwn - Broadcom BCM43xx IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver
........
This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. =
The
c port needs to be installed before ifconfig(8)
will work. In most cases the bwn_v4_ucode kernel module from the =
port
should be used. However, if an LP (low power) PHY is being used, =
the
bwn_v4_lp_ucode module should be used.
...........
BUT both modules are missing
% sudo kldload bwn_v4_ucode
kldload: can't load bwn_v4_ucode: No such file or directory
% sudo kldload bwn_v4_lp_ucode
kldload: can't load bwn_v4_lp_ucode: No such file or directory
Please help.
Ciao Vittorio
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