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

Weongyo Jeong weongyo.jeong at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 20:14:44 UTC 2009


On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 08:18:31PM +0300, Alex Keda wrote:
> Weongyo Jeong пишет:
> >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
> none1 at pci0:48:0:0:      class=0x028000 card=0x1371103c chip=0x431214e4 
> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>     device     = 'BCM4310 UART (Wireless Ethernet Adapter)'
>     class      = network
>     bar   [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xc8000000, size 16384, 
> enabled
>     cap 01[40] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
>     cap 09[58] = vendor (length 120)
>     cap 05[e8] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
>     cap 10[d0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(128) link x1(x1)
> 
> FreeBSD HP.lissyara.su 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r200750: Sun 
> Dec 20 14:47:53 MSK 2009 
> root at HP.lissyara.su:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> after load ssb
> ssb0: <Broadcom BCM4312 802.11a/b/g Wireless> mem 0xc8000000-0xc8003fff 
> irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci48
> ssb0: unsupportted coreid 0x817

Interesting.  It looks device has a USB 1.1 host controller(?) in
wireless NIC.  I think you can ignore this message that looks no
harm.

> after load if_bwn I have panic
> bwn0 on ssb0
> bwn: WLAN (chipid 0x4311 rev B) PHY (analog 4 type 2 rev 9) RADIO (manyf 
>  0x17f ver 0x2050 rev 2)
> bwn0: DMA (64 bits)
> bwn0: [FILTER]
> panic: ssb_add_child: 1960: SSB_DEV_80211 is only supported currently.

It's caused by unexpected SSB core.  Could you please test with attached
patch with email and tell me the result?

regards,
Weongyo Jeong

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