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 Adrian Chadd
HI, no - it's a different PHY and different bus glue. :( -a ___ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-18 Thread Andy Mender
Dear Adrian, I see, makes sense. I assumed bcm4322 and bcm4321 are similar. Trying to pull a higher Broadcom driver version for fwcutter will not cut it then (pun not intended)? I wanted to try it, just out of curiosity. Best regards, Andy On 18 November 2016 at 21:24, Adrian Chadd wrote: > h

Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
hiya, I think the 4322 is a newer PHY which we don't have support for yet (PHY-HT?). I think I tested the 4321 and that worked. It's waiting for new bus code from landon, and then when that's done, I'll finish the PHY port and we can test. -adrian On 18 November 2016 at 12:12, Andy Mender w

Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-18 Thread Andy Mender
Dear Adrian, I specifically rebuild that port after upgrading my kernel. I'm afraid the bcm4322 chip requires firmware that's not in the old Broadcom drivers that are used as a source for fwcutter. On GNU/Linux systems I typically need the 6.x series, while the port you mentioned uses the 5.x and

Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
there's a bwn firmware port you need to build. bwn-firmware-kmod -a On 17 November 2016 at 22:35, Andy Mender wrote: > Hello, > > I recompiled the kernel and did a world rebuild to include the bwn code we > discussed last time. There is some progress - now the bwn module does not > complain t

Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-17 Thread Andy Mender
Hello, I recompiled the kernel and did a world rebuild to include the bwn code we discussed last time. There is some progress - now the bwn module does not complain that some features are missing. However, the firmware is missing. I installed the /net/bwn-firmware-kmod, though that does not seem t

Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-16 Thread Andy Mender
Dear Adrian, Ben, Bingo! That could've been it. I did NOT uncomment the lines you mentioned in /usr/src/sys/modules/bwn prior to recompiling the kernel. I'll try to rebuild the kernel with the lines added and write back with results. Hope it works! Best regards, Andy On 17 November 2016 at 07:4

Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-16 Thread Adrian Chadd
hi, Something's wrong with that compilation. Check modules/bwn/Makefile and make sure you uncommented the bwn n_phy source files. -adrian On 16 November 2016 at 22:38, Andy Mender wrote: > Dear Adrian, Ben, > > sysctl.net.wlan.devices returns only the urtwn0 interface (from a TP-LINK > USB do

Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-16 Thread Andy Mender
Dear Adrian, Ben, sysctl.net.wlan.devices returns only the urtwn0 interface (from a TP-LINK USB dongle I use to get any connection). Below, please find the output of "dmesg | grep bwn": andy@mb-2008:~ % dmesg | grep bwn link_elf_obj: symbol bwn_nphy_op_allocate undefined KLD file if_bwn.ko - coul

Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-16 Thread Ben Woods
On Wed., 16 Nov. 2016 at 8:09 pm, Andy Mender wrote: > 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

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 si

Re: Broadcom BCM 43xx wireless chips

2016-11-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
hi! You need to compile with a specific kernel option added. add this: options BWN_GPL_PHY and recompile. See if that works! -a On 10 November 2016 at 22:17, Andy Mender wrote: > Fellow FreeBSD users and developers, > > I just returned to FreeBSD after some light distro-hopping and wanted