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

[John Merryweather Cooper]

On Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:39:37 PM John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> >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]
> 
> * * *
> 
> 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:
> >
> >
> >Release-Note:
> >Audit-Trail:
> 
> >Unformatted:
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Another data point.  I get the same log messages, but the bwn driver
now works for me on 9-STABLE.  All I need to do was follow the upgrade
steps.  I note that I was rebuilding the firmware module (and it's
dependencies) with 8.3-PRERELEASE with no effect.
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John M. Cooper