[oi-dev] Broadcom BCM4312 wireless on OpenIndiana 64-bit

[Jean-Pierre]

Hi,

Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2013-03-07 16:22, Jean-Pierre wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have finally been able to activate a 64-bit WiFi driver for a Broadcom
>> BCM4312 wireless hardware on OpenIndiana (oi151a5).
>
> Hello, many of the details you've posted in the report (thanks BTW!)
> seem like vague pointers for those who know what to google for -
> perhaps by the words you've mentioned :)
>
> If there are particular blogs/articles to read and learn in order to
> repeat your recipe for the reader's (i.e. my) hardware, could you
> please post the URLs?
>
> For example, how did you locate and patch the multimedia registers,
> or change linking of the driver, etc. to solve the issues you list?

Most of my changes were done manually, from repeatedly analyzing
why the OS went to panic, but I should be able to automate the changes.

> Or are all these fixes part of your NDIS changes and will be revised,
> refined and posted as the updated source code "ready to use" with an
> original Windows driver to wrap?

As I had to link the driver at build time, I cannot release a
"ready to use" driver, this would be a violation of the Broadcom
copyright. You will have to repeat the original recipe for
building the driver from the upgraded code (and, as I am not
familiar with developing on OpenIndiana, you will have to port
some code from my own which I developed on Linux).

> Now, I hope this would also work with my BCM4313... at least, after
> reading your detected issues I get a faint idea why my wrap panicked
> the kernel when attaching ;)

According to the .inf file, the same driver should be usable
with devices identified as follows :

vendor 0x14E4  device 0x4311
vendor 0x14E4  device 0x4312
vendor 0x14E4  device 0x4315
vendor 0x14E4  device 0x4318
vendor 0x14E4  device 0x4319
vendor 0x14E4  device 0x4320
vendor 0x14E4  device 0x4320 rev 03
vendor 0x14E4  device 0x4324
vendor 0x14E4  device 0x4324 rev 03
vendor 0x14E4  device 0x4328

Regards

Jean-Pierre