kern/165870: bwn driver does not attach on HP Pavilion dv9420us

Fri Mar 9 05:40:06 UTC 2012

>Number:         165870
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       bwn driver does not attach on HP Pavilion dv9420us
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 09 05:40:05 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Merryweather Cooper
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD dv9420us.kc.rr.com 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Mar  2 22:45:09 CST 2012     root at dv9420us.kc.rr.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP  amd64
>Description:
bwn detects the Broadcom chipset, but the device does not function with the following dmesg lines:

siba_bwn0: <Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g Wireless> mem 0xb6000000-0xb6003fff at device 0.0 on pci3
siba_bwn0: unsupported coreid (USB 1.1 Host)
bwn0 on siba_bwn0
bwn0: WLAN (chipid 0x4311 rev 13) PHY (analog 4 type 2 rev 9) RADIO (manuf 0x17f ver 0x2050 rev 2)
bwn0: DMA (64 bits)
bwn0: Using 1 MSI messages
bwn0: [FILTER]

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wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:1a:73:81:41:db
bwn0: need multicast update callback
bwn0: need multicast update callback
bwn0: firmware version (rev 410 patch 2160 date 0x751a time 0x7c0a)
bwn0: status of RF switch is changed to OFF
bwn0: please turns on the RF switch
bwn0: device timeout
bwn0: device timeout

>How-To-Repeat:
Boot FreeBsd
>Fix:


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