Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-18 Thread Andy Mender
Dear Adrian, No problem then, I can wait :). Meanwhile, I have my trusty Realtek-based USB dongle. Never too many of those! As a side note, will the datasheets published by Cypress help any? I mean, I'm not in a position to help with coding, especially not with writing wireless device drivers in

Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-18 Thread Andy Mender
e can test. > > > > -adrian > > > On 18 November 2016 at 12:12, Andy Mender <andymenderu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear Adrian, >> >> I specifically rebuild that port after upgrading my kernel. I'm afraid >> the bcm4322 chip requires firmware that

Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-18 Thread Andy Mender
and 4.x drivers. I checked the Makefile :). Best regards, Andy On 18 November 2016 at 19:08, Adrian Chadd <adrian.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > there's a bwn firmware port you need to build. > > bwn-firmware-kmod > > -a > > > On 17 November 2016 at 22:35, Andy Mender <

Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-16 Thread Andy Mender
ards, Andy On 16 November 2016 at 23:35, Ben Woods <woods...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed., 16 Nov. 2016 at 8:09 pm, Andy Mender <andymenderu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear Adrian, >> >> I set the mentioned option (BWN_GPL_PHY just below the bwn

Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-16 Thread Andy Mender
Dear Adrian, I set the mentioned option (BWN_GPL_PHY just below the bwn driver) in the kernel config file and recompiled the STABLE kernel. Now the additional message about BWN_GPL_PHY is gone, but there is some 2-3 features listed as unsupported. The driver gets attached to the network card as

Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-10 Thread Andy Mender
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