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

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/40279; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/40279: import bwi(4), driver for Broadcom BCM43xx 802.11
 wifi devices, including Apple's AirPort Extreme
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:51:37 -0600 (CST)

 As a status report, I have been using this since Oct. 15 (plus 
 a few 64-bit fixes) on 4.99.73 and more recently on 5.0_BETA.
 
 $ dmesg | grep bwi
 bwi0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0
 bwi0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 20
 bwi_sysctlattach: sysctl_createv failed (rc = 0)
 bwi0: BBP id 0x4318, BBP rev 0x2, BBP pkg 2
 bwi0: MAC: rev 9
 bwi0: PHY type 2, rev 7, ver 3
 bwi0: RF manu 0x17f, type 0x2050, rev 8
 bwi0: invalid antenna gain in sprom
 bwi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
 bwi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 
 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
 bwi0: firmware rev 0x0127, patch level 0x000e
 bwi0: base tssi measure failed
 bwi0: device timeout
 bwi0: device timeout
 bwi0: device timeout
 
 $ uptime
  6:50PM  up 6 days, 21:20, 1 user, load averages: 0.16, 0.08, 0.02
 
 $ ifconfig bwi0
 bwi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         ssid 5FYA8 nwkey *****
         powersave off
         bssid 00:18:01:e0:8a:57 chan 9
         address: 00:14:a5:74:1e:49
         media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM36 mode 11g)
         status: active
         inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
         inet6 fe80::214:a5ff:fe74:1e49%bwi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
 
 $ netstat -bi | grep bwi0 | tail -1   
 bwi0  1500  192.168.1/24  192.168.1.4        405265008  153344210
 
 Thank you for this!