I had to add an entry to sys/conf/files to get things to go - is this intentional due to the 'newness' of the driver? looking forward to testing it - thanks for undoing the fighting over this chipset sephe! - Chris
Since this driver is reverse engineered, the "attach" code path may be not safe enough for it to go into 'kernel'. I think loading it as module is the safest way. And (mini)PCIe parts (4311/4312, newer amd64 based Dell laptops use them) probably do not work yet (missing small fraction of initialization code). Best Regards, sephe -- Live Free or Die
doh.. I think I'm in the latter category ..
pciconf -lv shows:
none3@pci7:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x03191468 chip=0x432814e4
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM43XNM 802.11n Network Adapter'
class = network
I'll probably try to force the probe tomorrow and watch the hilarity ensue!
Thanks again.
- Chris-- Live Free or Die
Thanks for saving the trouble - does this mean support is not currently in the driver, or that it is 'less supportable' (e.g. would need to do some more reverse engineering, etc) - trying to estimate what the time would take.. Thanks, - Chris
It is not supported (no reverse engineering document). But you can try adding the PCI ids into the driver. If there is 802.11 MAC, 11b/g PHY and 2050 RF things may work. Best Regards, sephe -- Live Free or Die
Thanks for the info.. for the record, this chip did not work after a simple pcidevs update with error as follows bwi0: <Broadcom BCM43XNM 802.11 Wireless Lan> [tentative] irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci7 pcib5: device bwi0 requested unsupported memory range 0x0-0xffffffff (decoding 0x0-0x0, 0x0-0x0) bwi0: 0x4000 bytes at rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffff) bwi0: can't allocate IO memory device_probe_and_attach: bwi0 attach returned 6 I'll try to keep checking the status on their spec 'engineering' page here & there and if I see anything promising will take a crack at it. Thanks, - Chris
Doh! missed this - good thing, because the sys/conf/files tweak didn't work :)
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