Re: Any way to get the NDISulator working on 11.0-RELEASE?

2017-04-27 Thread Kiernan Hager
wrote: > hi, > > do mention that on the list. i don't hav time to help with it :( > > > -a > > > On 6 April 2017 at 21:40, Kiernan Hager <kah.listaddr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Update: I just realized I forgot to say this: > > When I trie

What is this code I found in bwn?

2017-04-02 Thread Kiernan Hager
In gnu/dev/bwn/phy_n/if_bwn_phy_n_tables.c, i found this code lurking: /* Auto increment broken + caching issue on BCM43224? */ if (siba_get_chipid(sc->sc_dev) == 43224 && siba_get_revid(sc->sc_dev) == 1) { BWN_PHY_READ(mac, BWN_NPHY_TABLE_DATALO);

Any way to get the NDISulator working on 11.0-RELEASE?

2017-04-02 Thread Kiernan Hager
I am the not-so-proud owner of a BCM43224 wireless card, which is in my MacBook and, I am told, not easily replaced due to it having an odd shape. I am currently using 10.3. I tried to compile it myself from the github repository, but it gave me an error (I can't remember what it was). Does anyone

Advice for writing wireless drivers?

2017-03-24 Thread Kiernan Hager
I was thinking of trying to port (some of) brcmsmac to FreeBSD in order to support BCM43224, but I then realized that I don't know very much about Linux wireless drivers. Does anyone know if there is a good resource explaining the major differences between FreeBSD and Linux device drivers?