.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Christian Brueffer .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" .Dd February 15, 2011 .Dt BWN 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm bwn .Nd Broadcom BCM43xx IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver .Sh SYNOPSIS To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: .Bd -ragged -offset indent .Cd "device siba_bwn" .Cd "device bwn" .Cd "device wlan" .Cd "device wlan_amrr" .Cd "device firmware" .Ed .Pp Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in .Xr loader.conf 5 : .Bd -literal -offset indent if_bwn_load="YES" .Ed .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver provides support for Broadcom BCM43xx based PCI/CardBus network adapters. .Pp It supports .Cm station and .Cm monitor mode operation. Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. For more information on configuring this device, see .Xr ifconfig 8 . .Pp This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. The .Pa ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod port needs to be installed before .Xr ifconfig 8 will work. Most cases you need to use bwn_v4_ucode module but if you are a LP (low power) PHY user please uses bwn_v4_lp_ucode module. .Sh HARDWARE The .Nm driver supports Broadcom BCM43xx based wireless devices, including: .Bl -column "Apple Airport Extreme" "BCM4306" "Mini PCI" "a/b/g" .It Em "Card" Ta Em "Chip" Ta Em "Bus" Ta Em "Standard" .It "Apple Airport Extreme BCM4318 PCI b/g" .It "ASUS WL-138g BCM4318 PCI b/g" .It "Buffalo WLI-CB-G54S BCM4318 CardBus b/g" .It "Dell Wireless 1390 BCM4311 Mini PCI b/g" .It "Dell Wireless 1470 BCM4318 Mini PCI b/g" .It "Dell Truemobile 1400 BCM4309 Mini PCI b/g" .It "HP Compaq 6715b BCM4312 PCI b/g" .It "HP nx6125 BCM4319 PCI b/g" .It "Linksys WPC54G Ver 3 BCM4318 CardBus b/g" .It "Linksys WPC54GS Ver 2 BCM4318 CardBus b/g" .It "US Robotics 5411 BCM4318 CardBus b/g" .El .Pp Users of older Broadcom chipsets (BCM4301, BCM4303 and BCM4306 rev 2) must use .Xr bwi 4 because the v4 version of the firmware does not support these chips. The newer firmware is too big to fit into these old chips. .Sh EXAMPLES Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): .Bd -literal -offset indent ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwn0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e netmask 0xffffff00 .Ed .Pp Join a specific BSS network with network name .Dq Li my_net : .Pp .Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwn0 ssid my_net up" .Pp Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: .Bd -literal -offset indent ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwn0 ssid my_net \e wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up .Ed .Sh LOADER TUNABLES Tunables can be set at the .Xr loader 8 prompt before booting the kernel or stored in .Xr loader.conf 5 . .Bl -tag -width indent .It Va hw.bwn.msi_disable This tunable disables MSI support on the hardware. The default value is 0. .It Va hw.bwn.usedma This tunable enables DMA operations on the hardware. If the value is 0, PIO mode would be used. The default value is 1. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr arp 4 , .Xr bwi 4 , .Xr cardbus 4 , .Xr intro 4 , .Xr pci 4 , .Xr wlan 4 , .Xr wlan_amrr 4 , .Xr ifconfig 8 , .Xr wpa_supplicant 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver first appeared in .Fx 8.1 . .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The .Nm driver was written by .An Weongyo Jeong .Aq weongyo@FreeBSD.org . .\".Sh BUGS .\"Some card based on the BCM4306 and BCM4309 chips do not work properly .\"on channel 1, 2 and 3. .Sh CAVEATS Some LP PHY devices have DMA operation problems that in that case try to use PIO mode.