Has source been updated with Hibbits' recent patches?

Super Bisquit superbisquit at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 01:22:40 UTC 2012


On 2/15/12, YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 02:34:39PM -0500, Super Bisquit wrote:
>> My apologies. I falsely made the assumption that the airport cards were of
>> mii(4) + wi(4) +$DRIVER/MODULE(4).
>> Anyway, is there anyone else with the same card? If so, would you help
>> with
>> testing the patch? By doing so, you would be able to add information
>> determining if the problem is my system or the card itself.
>> Does anyone have the Agere ET1101 card- the one without the silicon bug?
>> If
>> so, you may be able to help improve the driver/kernel module for wi.
>>
>>
>> @Pyun YongHyeon, for this card- Agere ET1101C- what is the, if any, dsp
>> fix?
>
> Agere, now LSI, ET1101/ET1101C is PCIe Gigabit etherenet controller
> so I think it has nothing to do with wireless controllers.  In
> other words, wireless drivers do not need mii(4).  The instance of
> ukphy(4) may come from gem(4), see the output of 'devinfo -rv'. The
> DSP fixup of PHY is to adjust signal handing of controller firmware.
1. Is there a forth command for enabling the device?
2. Should I try the card in my QuickSilver G4? Wait, I will need to
because I don't know if the card will work for Debian. The iMac is
dedicated to FreeBSD.
>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > On Feb 4, 2012, at 10:18 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>> >
>> >  On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:58:37 -0500
>> >> Super Bisquit <superbisquit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>  http://lists.freebsd.org/**pipermail/svn-src-head/2010-**
>> >>> April/016324.html<http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2010-April/016324.html>
>> >>>
>> >>> tima# dmesg | grep 0x0004
>> >>> ukphy0: OUI 0x0004de, model 0x000e, rev. 2
>> >>> tima#
>> >>>
>> >>> Seems that I have the airport card that causes a lot of problems.
>> >>> http://markmail.org/message/**ldd6kjhxp3h75dgq<http://markmail.org/message/ldd6kjhxp3h75dgq>has
>> >>> a mention of ukphy(4) but,
>> >>> that page and driver does not exist in the FreeBSD man pages.
>> >>>
>> >>> If Torfinn  (tingox), Nathan, or someone else has an Airport card
>> >>> which
>> >>> does not have a bug, then one of them may be able to test the driver.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> How can we tell?
>> >> Is there a way though pciconf?
>> >> My Powerbook G4 has this:
>> >> siba_bwn0 at pci1:0:18:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x004e106b
>> >> chip=0x432014e4
>> >> rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
>> >>   vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>> >>   device     = '802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (BCM4309)'
>> >>   class      = network
>> >>   cap 01[40] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
>> >> and my iBook G4 has this:
>> >> none0 at pci1:0:18:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x4318106b chip=0x431814e4
>> >> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>> >>   vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>> >>   device     = 'BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN
>> >> Controller'
>> >>   class      = network
>> >>
>> >> HTH
>> >> --
>> >> Torfinn
>> >>
>> >
>> > The broadcom card uses the bwi(4) driver, not the wi(4) driver.  wi(4)
>> > is
>> > for prism/orinoco (original airport) cards.
>> >
>> > - Justin
>


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