Broadcom BCM4310 / bwi(4) and interface bwi0 is not showing up

Mark Johnston markjdb at gmail.com
Mon Oct 25 00:11:15 UTC 2010


> I have a new laptop Acer Aspire One D250 and I want to install a
> 8-CURRENT as of CVS from May 2009 (as I use this on all my laptops).
> The laptop comes with as Wifi chip:
>
> none2 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0xe01b105b chip=0x431514e4
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>     device     = 'BCM4310 USB Controller'
>     class      = network
> 
> I learned after searching around that it should be supported by bwi(4)
> and one should install the firmware kmod from the ports.
> ...
>
> What I am missing here? Thanks
> 
> 	matthias
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Looking at bwi/if_bwi_pci.c, it doesn't seem as though your particular
chip is supported:

static const struct bwi_dev {
        uint16_t        vid;
        uint16_t        did;
        const char      *desc;
} bwi_devices[] = {
        { PCI_VENDOR_BROADCOM, 0x4301,"Broadcom BCM4301 802.11b Wireless Lan" },
        { PCI_VENDOR_BROADCOM, 0x4307,"Broadcom BCM4307 802.11b Wireless Lan" },
        { PCI_VENDOR_BROADCOM, 0x4311,"Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g Wireless Lan" },
        { PCI_VENDOR_BROADCOM, 0x4312,"Broadcom BCM4312 802.11a/b/g Wireless Lan" },
        { PCI_VENDOR_BROADCOM, 0x4313,"Broadcom BCM4312 802.11a Wireless Lan" },
        { PCI_VENDOR_BROADCOM, 0x4320,"Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless Lan"},
        { PCI_VENDOR_BROADCOM, 0x4321,"Broadcom BCM4306 802.11a Wireless Lan"},
        { PCI_VENDOR_BROADCOM, 0x4325,"Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless Lan"},
        { PCI_VENDOR_BROADCOM, 0x4324,"Broadcom BCM4309 802.11a/b/g Wireless Lan" },
        { PCI_VENDOR_BROADCOM, 0x4318,"Broadcom BCM4318 802.11b/g Wireless Lan" },
        { PCI_VENDOR_BROADCOM, 0x4319,"Broadcom BCM4318 802.11a/b/g Wireless Lan" },
        { PCI_VENDOR_BROADCOM, 0x431a,"Broadcom BCM4318 802.11a Wireless Lan" },
        { 0, 0, NULL }
};

-Mark


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