Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless
driver
Tom Uffner
tom at uffner.com
Thu May 20 00:05:54 UTC 2010
Attilio Rao wrote:
>
> I have another problem where the bwn is fully recognized and wlan0 is
> created but the interface doesn't scan at all:
>
> # netstat -nil
> Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Idrop
> Opkts Oerrs Coll
> bwn0 2290 <Link#1> 00:26:5e:64:be:75 0 0 0
> 0 0 0
>
> # ifconfig wlan0
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> ether 00:26:5e:64:be:75
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
> status: no carrier
> ssid "" channel 1 (2412 MHz 11b)
> country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 30 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60
> bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 1 wme
> bintval 0
>
> # kldstat
> Id Refs Address Size Name
> 1 4 0xffffffff80100000 90b9a8 kernel
> 2 1 0xffffffff80c22000 28a9a bwn_v4_ucode.ko
>
> doing "ifconfig wlan0 list scan" ends up immediately without further output.
> The dmesg is here: http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/dmesg-bwn0.diff
I had a similar problem w/ a 4309.
If you haven't solved this already, please check that the radio is
actually enabled. some laptops have a button. some have a key sequence.
many also have a BIOS setting. mine looked pretty much the same as yours
to FreeBSD but just endlessly scanned the channels for a signal until i
noticed that the radio was disabled in BIOS.
tom
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