Has source been updated with Hibbits' recent patches?

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:22:39PM -0500, Super Bisquit wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I'm not aware of such command.

> 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.

I don't know what kind of controller you have. If bwi(4)/bwn(4)
support your controller the driver may need a glue code to make it
work on your box.  Without access to real hardware it's somewhat
hard to experiment. :-(
CCed to Weongyo, he may have better idea since he is the author of
bwn(4).

> >
> >>
> >> 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
> >