Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver

[Aditya Sarawgi]

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



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Aditya Sarawgi