Bug 160652

Summary:	siba_bwn in GENERIC
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	R.Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Open ---
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	9.0-BETA1
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description R.Mahmatkhanov 2011-09-11 07:30:11 UTC

Right now we have this line in GENERIC:

#device        bwn        # Broadcom BCM43xx wireless NICs

From user POV all he need to do to make his broadcom wifi work, is
to uncomment this line and recompile his kernel. But this actually not sufficient - he also need to add device siba_bwn, and then install
net/bwn-firmware-kmod. But he will know that after recompiling his kernel when his wireless adapter will not work as expected :).

So may be we need to also add siba_bwn (commented out by default) in GENERIC and some reference about net/bwn-firmware-kmod?

Comment 1 Adrian Chadd freebsd_committer

2011-09-11 13:12:56 UTC

How's this as an example (for sys/i386/conf/GENERIC):

Index: GENERIC
===================================================================
--- GENERIC     (revision 224905)
+++ GENERIC     (working copy)
@@ -276,6 +276,11 @@
 device         ath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath
 #device                bwi             # Broadcom BCM430x/BCM431x
wireless NICs.
 #device                bwn             # Broadcom BCM43xx wireless NICs.
+#device                siba_bwn        # SIBA bus glue for the bwn(4) NIC.
+                               # Please read bwn(4) before enabling this
+                               # as it requires the siba_bwn and wlan_amrr
+                               # kernel modules to be installed, as well as
+                               # the net/bwn-firmware-kmod port.
 device         ipw             # Intel 2100 wireless NICs.
 device         iwi             # Intel 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG wireless NICs.
 device         iwn             # Intel 4965/1000/5000/6000 wireless NICs.

I'll have to commit something similar for other kernel config files.



Adrian

Comment 2 R.Mahmatkhanov 2011-09-11 19:24:12 UTC

Adrian Chadd wrote on 11.09.2011 16:12:
> How's this as an example (for sys/i386/conf/GENERIC):
>
> Index: GENERIC
> ===================================================================
> --- GENERIC     (revision 224905)
> +++ GENERIC     (working copy)
> @@ -276,6 +276,11 @@
>   device         ath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath
>   #device                bwi             # Broadcom BCM430x/BCM431x
> wireless NICs.
>   #device                bwn             # Broadcom BCM43xx wireless NICs.
> +#device                siba_bwn        # SIBA bus glue for the bwn(4) NIC.
> +                               # Please read bwn(4) before enabling this
> +                               # as it requires the siba_bwn and wlan_amrr
> +                               # kernel modules to be installed, as well as
> +                               # the net/bwn-firmware-kmod port.
>   device         ipw             # Intel 2100 wireless NICs.
>   device         iwi             # Intel 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG wireless NICs.
>   device         iwn             # Intel 4965/1000/5000/6000 wireless NICs.
>
> I'll have to commit something similar for other kernel config files.
>
>
>
> Adrian

While this looks good to me, i'd add reference to siba_bwn into bwn 
comment itself so it will not be overlooked for sure.

-- 
Regards,
Ruslan

Tinderboxing kills... the drives.

Comment 3 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2017-12-31 08:01:19 UTC

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