BWN driver error messages

Steven Friedrich FreeBSD at insightbb.com
Wed Sep 8 02:25:06 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 07 September 2010 21:46:43 Eitan Adler wrote:
> When I attempt to use the if_bwn driver I get the following messages:
> 
> Is my card not supported or am I missing a step or is it something else?
> 
> 
> siba_bwn0: <Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g Wireless> mem 0xf4700000-0xf4703fff
> irq 1 8 at device 0.0 on pci4
> bwn0 on siba_bwn0
> bwn0: WLAN (chipid 0x4312 rev 15) PHY (analog 6 type 5 rev 1) RADIO (manuf
> 0x17f ver 0x2062 rev 2)
> bwn0: DMA (64 bits)
> bwn0: Using 1 MSI messages
> bwn0: [FILTER]
> wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:21:00:e7:75:20
> bwn_v4_lp_ucode15: could not load firmware image, error 2
> bwn0: the fw file(bwn_v4_lp_ucode15) not found
> bwn-open_v4_lp_ucode15: could not load firmware image, error 2
> bwn0: the fw file(bwn-open_v4_lp_ucode15) not found

You need a package or port of:
 bwn-firmware-kmod-0.1.0 Broadcom AirForce IEEE 802.11 Firmware Kernel Module


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