Broadcom BCM4318

[Felix Friedlander]

It just so happens I’m currently working on porting `bwn` to newer cards, and I was thinking it might be worth trying out the new(er) firmware I’m using. Try applying these patches to `bwn-firmware-kmod` and re-installing, and tell me what happens.

--- Makefile.orig	2014-01-27 08:52:12.000000000 +1100
+++ Makefile	2015-04-07 08:31:46.000000000 +1000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# $FreeBSD: head/net/bwn-firmware-kmod/Makefile 341294 2014-01-26 21:52:12Z bapt $

PORTNAME=	bwn-firmware
-PORTVERSION=	0.1.0
+PORTVERSION=	0.2.0
CATEGORIES=	net
MASTER_SITES=	http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/ <http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/> \
		http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/ <http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/>
@@ -36,11 +36,11 @@
WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}
FWNAME=		bwn_v4
FWFILE=		broadcom-wl-${FWVERSION}.tar.bz2
-FWVERSION=	4.150.10.5
+FWVERSION=	5.100.138
KMODNAME=	${FWNAME}_ucode
FWNAME_LP=	bwn_v4_lp
FWFILE_LP=	broadcom-wl-${FWVERSION_LP}.tar.bz2
-FWVERSION_LP=	4.178.10.4
+FWVERSION_LP=	5.100.138
KMODNAME_LP=	${FWNAME_LP}_ucode
PLIST_SUB=	KMODNAME="${KMODNAME}" \
		KMODNAME_LP="${KMODNAME_LP}"
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
	tar xjf ${DISTDIR}/${FWFILE}
	mkdir -p ${WRKSRC}/bg
	b43-fwcutter -w ${WRKSRC}/bg \
-	   ${WRKSRC}/broadcom-wl-${FWVERSION}/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o
+	   ${WRKSRC}/broadcom-wl-${FWVERSION}/linux/wl_apsta.o
	${TOUCH} ${WRKSRC}/bg/v4/ucode.fw <http://ucode.fw/>

	@${ECHO_CMD} "KMOD= ${KMODNAME}" > ${WRKSRC}/bg/v4/Makefile



--- distinfo.orig	2014-01-23 02:30:13.000000000 +1100
+++ distinfo	2015-04-07 08:37:10.000000000 +1000
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
SIZE (broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2) = 3888794
SHA256 (broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2) = 32f6ad98facbb9045646fdc8b54bb03086d204153253f9c65d0234a5d90ae53f
SIZE (broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2) = 5986780
+SHA256 (broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2) = f1e7067aac5b62b67b8b6e4c517990277804339ac16065eb13c731ff909ae46f


Let me know what you find, this may not fix anything but it’s worth a shot.

> On 12 Apr 2015, at 6:18 pm, Mohammad BadieZadegan <mbzadegan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I installed that, I reported all of important messages at
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/unknown-hp-notebook-wireless-driver.51161/
> 
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Felix Friedlander <felixphew0 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> You need to install the 'sysutils/bwn-firmware-kmod' port.
>> --
>> Felix
>> On 12 Apr 2015 5:59 pm, "Mohammad BadieZadegan" <mbzadegan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> I have a problem to connecting Broadcom BCM4318 and I started this topic
>>> <
>>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/unknown-hp-notebook-wireless-driver.51161/
>>>> 
>>> at FreeBSD forum about it.
>>> My device inform me about not finding of (bwn-open_v4_ucode5) firmware!
>>> How can I resolve this problem?
>>> Regards.
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>> 
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