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?
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
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.
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