[issue1148] BCM4311 wireless network adapter detected but not functional

[Archimedes Gaviola]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Sepherosa Ziehau
<bugs at lists.dragonflybsd.org> wrote:
>
> Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa at gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Archimedes Gaviola
> <archimedes.gaviola at 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
data sheet downloaded from Broadcom's web site.

Archimedes