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Re: kern/40279: import bwi(4), driver for Broadcom BCM43xx 802.11 wifi devices, including Apple's AirPort Extreme



   Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 13:42:36 +0400
   From: Alexey Lebedev <realzhtw%gmail.com@localhost>

   I'm a user of Compaq Pressario V3614AU with broadcom bcm4311 wifi card.

   I tried to use your patch to get it to work. That's what I have in my
   dmesg after recompiling the kernel (recompilation was done under
   FreeBSD machine for speed up):

   bwi0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 22
   bwi0: BBP id 0x4311, BBP rev 0x2, BBP pkg 0
   bwi0: MAC rev 13 is not supported
   bwi0: no MAC was found

Unfortunately, some quick Googling suggests that bcm4311 cards require
a little more support from the driver than bwi(4) currently has.  You
could try adding 13 to the list bwi_sup_macrev in sys/dev/ic/bwi.c,
but you'd probably encounter another problem.  See, for example,
<http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-170.html> and
<http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/bugs/2008-10/msg00015.html>.


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