On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Archimedes Gaviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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§ion=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 -- Live Free or Die
