Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

[Adrian Chadd]

hi!

You need to compile with a specific kernel option added. add this:

options BWN_GPL_PHY

and recompile.

See if that works!


-a


On 10 November 2016 at 22:17, Andy Mender <andymenderunix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fellow FreeBSD users and developers,
>
> I just returned to FreeBSD after some light distro-hopping and wanted to
> test
> drivers for the Broadcom wireless BCM4322 chip. bwi doesn't work at all, as
> it does not recognize this chip (no surprises there), however bwn recognizes
> the chip and both siba and bwn get attached. However, the driver throws some
> errors and detaches with exit code 6. Regardless, I feel like there is some
> hope
> in getting this to work!
>
> As I understood from previous discussions, Adrian is working on the bwn
> driver.
> How is it coming along? I know that me and a lot of other FreeBSD users are
> running FreeBSD on MacBooks (either natively or via virtualization) and it
> would
> be a major breakthrough if we could get the pesky Broadcom NICs to
> cooperate :).
>
> I would be more than willing to participate in a "pilot program", should
> end-user
> testing me of importance.
>
> Best regards,
> Andy
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