On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Quentin Stievenart <acieroid@awesom.eu>
wrote:> Hi,
>
> I've some broadcom wireless cards to test here (two BCM4318 and a
> BCM4312). This week I tried the BCM4318 one (the 4312 is on a netbook,
> I'll try it later, if the 4318 works some day).
>
> First of all, I was able to use it with ndisgen on FreeBSD 7.1, but
> since the 7.2, it doesn't work anymore. So, two day ago I installed a
> 8.1-RC1 and tried bwi(4), but a `ifconfig wlan0 scan` wasn't detecting
> anything.
>
> So I gave bwn(4) a try, and it detect perfectly my network, but I just
> can't connect to it, neither with dhclient nor with a static IP.
> Here's what I do to try to connect:
>
> # kldload if_bwn
> # kldload bwn_v4_ucode
> # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev bwn0
> # ifconfig wlan0 up
> # ifconfig wlan0 ssid myssid channel 6 wepmode on wepkey mywepkey
> # ifconfig wlan0
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
mtu
> 1500
> ? ? ? ?ether 00:11:50:d0:2f:6f
> ? ? ? ?media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/11Mbps mode 11b
> ? ? ? ?status: associated
> ? ? ? ?ssid myssid channel 6 (2437 MHz 11b) bssid 00:60:b3:7a:5c:29
> ? ? ? ?country US authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF wepkey 1:40-bit
> ? ? ? ?txpower 30 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle
250
> ? ? ? ?roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 1 wme
> # ifconfig bwn0
> bwn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
2290
> ? ? ? ?ether 00:11:50:d0:2f:6f
> ? ? ? ?media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b
> ? ? ? ?status: associated
>
> Then, for the static IP:
> # ifconfig wlan0 inet 192.168.1.30 netmask 255.255.255.0
Where is weptxkey. Read manual again.> # route add default 192.168.1.1
> # arp -a
> ? (192.168.1.30) at 00:11:50:d0:2f:6f on wlan0 permanent [ethernet]
>
> And I can't ping anything (except localhost and 192.168.1.30)
> Or, with dhcp:
> # dhclient wlan0
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
>
> Here's what pciconf -lv tells me about my card:
>
> siba_bwn0@pci0:2:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x70011799 chip=0x431814e4
> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
> ? ?vendor ? ? = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> ? ?device ? ? = 'Broadcom 802.11b/g (BCM4318)'
> ? ?class ? ? ?= network
>
> And a dmesg | egrep "(bwn|wlan)":
>
> siba_bwn0: <Broadcom BCM4318 802.11b/g Wireless> mem
0xfdefc000-0xfdefdfff irq 22 at device 2.0 on pci2
> bwn0 on siba_bwn0
> bwn0: WLAN (chipid 0x4318 rev 9) PHY (analog 3 type 2 rev 7) RADIO (manuf
0x17f ver 0x2050 rev 8)
> bwn0: DMA (32 bits)
> bwn0: [FILTER]
> wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:11:50:d0:2f:6f
> bwn0: firmware version (rev 410 patch 2160 date 0x751a time 0x7c0a)
> wlan0: ieee80211_new_state_locked: pending INIT -> SCAN transition lost
> wlan0: link state changed to UP
> bwn0: need multicast update callback
> bwn0: RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0)
> bwn0: RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0)
> bwn0: RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0)
> bwn0: RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0)
> bwn0: RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0)
>
> Also, when I start tcpdump on wlan0, and try to ping this computer from
> another one, I see all the ping requests and responses on FreeBSD, but
> the other computer don't get any response.
>
> Does anyone knows what to do now ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Quentin Stievenart.
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