Re: [issue1148] BCM4311 wireless network adapter detected but not functional

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Archimedes Gaviola
<archimedes.gaviola@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Sepherosa Ziehau
> <bugs@lists.dragonflybsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@gmail.com> added the comment:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Archimedes Gaviola
>> <archimedes.gaviola@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a mini-PCI wireless network adapter on my laptop that wasn't
>>> detected on DragonFly 2.0.0 during installation. Since it wasn't
>>> detected, what I did is performing the steps in the
>>> bwi(4) manual http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=bwi&section=ANY
>>> and download the firmware at
>>> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/bwi/v3.tbz. Now, the driver were
>>> detected (Broadcom BCM4311) but seems not functional. It doesn't show
>>> up after invoking ifconfig. Below is the dmesg output:
>>>
>>> device_probe_and_attach: bwi0 attach returned 6
>>> Preloaded elf module "/modules/if_bwi.ko" at 0xc07b93c8.
>>> bwi0: <Broadcom BCM4311 802.11 Wireless Lan> mem 0x31300000-0x31303fff
>>> irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
>>> bwi0: BBP: id 0x4311, rev 0x2, pkg 0
>>> bwi0: MAC rev 13 is not supported
>>> bwi0: no MAC was found
>>>
>>> And as I try looking at the /usr/src/sys/dev/netif/bwi/if_bwi.c code,
>>> BCM4311 is part of the supported device
>>>
>>>        { PCI_VENDOR_BROADCOM, PCI_PRODUCT_BROADCOM_BCM4311,
>>>          "Broadcom BCM4311 802.11 Wireless Lan" },
>>
>> Different MAC revs normally share same PCI id.  AFAIK, only relative
>> old 4311 works (I don't have any).  I would appreciate, if you could
>> update bwi according to the latest reverse-engineered spec :).  I
>> don't have time to do it currently.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> sephe
>>
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>
> Hi Sephe,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Okay let me try updating bwi. Where can I find
> that latest reversed-engineered spec you've mentioned? I only have the

http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/

Best Regards,
sephe

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