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

[Weongyo Jeong]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 08:18:48AM +0000, Aditya Sarawgi wrote:
> 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

I see that your device has LP-PHY instead of A/B/G/N PHYs so currently
it's not supported by bwn(4).

AFAIK linux has a weak but working implementation so we could refer to
other Open Sources.

regards,
Weongyo Jeong