if_bwi on PowerBook G4

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 09/22/11 02:07, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 22 September 2011 07:36, Justin Hibbits<chmeeedalf at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I'm trying to get a Linksys wireless card working on my PowerBook G4 (PC
>> card, not built-in airport), and running into problems.  I've loaded the
>> firmware, but when I load the module, it prints the following messages, and
>> won't try again:
>>
>> bwi0:<Broadcom BCM4318 802.11b/g Wireless Lan>  mem 0x88000000-0x88001fff
>> irq 58 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
>> bwi0: BBP: id 0x4318, rev 0x2, pkg 2
>> bwi0: MAC: rev 9
>> bwi0: PHY: type 2, rev 7, ver 3
>> bwi0: RF: manu 0x17f, type 0x2050, rev 8
>> bwi0: invalid antenna gain in sprom
>>
>> I've googled, and seen successes on PowerPC, but not with CardBus (which
>> isn't enabled by default, so could contribute), and seen reports with the
>> same error message, but followed by the antenna gain being read
>> successfully.  I'm clueless as to how to proceed with this.
>
> I'd start by looking at the source to see why this is the case.
> It's possible there are endian-ness issues in the driver; I've seen
> people with issues w/ the broadcom code in Linux when run on PPC.

For whatever it's worth, bwn(4) works on my G4 iBook, despite reporting 
the same error. However, it ends up running at very much the wrong gain, 
and I need to be 4 times closer to the AP when running FreeBSD than OS X.
-Nathan