BWN Driver

[Ramiro Caso]

2011/12/19, Chris Brennan <xaero at xaerolimit.net>:
> I've got an HP Pavillian laptop with a Broadcom BCM4312 card. Below is
> what I've loaded so far and the result from /var/log/messages.

Hi, I have the same card, so maybe I can help. Some Broadcom chipsets
are LP (low power) PHY, so you have to load bwn_v4_lp_ucode instead of
bwn_v4_ucode. That worked for me. You may want to check the man page
for bwn, just to be sure.

Best,
Ramiro

>
>
> [root at blackdragon ~]# kldstat | grep bwn
> 14    1 0xffffffff82035000 28a9a    bwn_v4_ucode.ko
> 19    1 0xffffffff8205e000 2982c    if_bwn.ko
> 20    1 0xffffffff82088000 6183     siba_bwn.ko
> [root at blackdragon ~]#
>
>
> Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller
> Interface> mem 0xc7f50000-0xc7f507ff irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci1
> Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: [ITHREAD]
> Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: OHCI version 0.0 (ROM=0)
> Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: invalid OHCI version
> Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: fwohci_init failed with err=6
> Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: device_attach: fwohci0 attach returned 5
> Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: siba_bwn0: <Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g
> Wireless> mem 0xfc000000-0xfc003fff irq 23 at device 0.0 on pci8
> Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0 on siba_bwn0
> Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0: WLAN (chipid 0x4312 rev 15) PHY
> (analog 6 type 5 rev 1) RADIO (manuf 0x17f ver 0x2062 rev 2)
> Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0: DMA (64 bits)
> Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0: Using 1 MSI messages
> Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0: [FILTER]
>
> I get a nice bwn0 device with ifconfig, but I am unable to do anything
> with it and the little blue light on the front of my laptop stays red,
> even after playing with the switch for my Wireless device. I've gotten
> it to work in linux but not reliably and of course it does work in Windows.
> So I am a bit stumped as to what is wrong or what I am missing.
>
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