wireless on HP compaq 6715s - Broadcom BCM5906m - not supported?

2010-07-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I've HP Compaq 6715s laptop.
Looking at "pciconf -lv" output, the
wireless (and ethernet) device is:


b...@pci0:16:0:0:   class=0x02 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x171314e4 rev=0x02 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'Broadcom NetLink (TM) Fast Ethernet (BCM5906m)'
class  = network
subclass   = ethernet

I tried to search on the net, including FBSD hardware release notes,
and it seems this device is not supported.

Can anybody comment on/confirm this please?

Any experience using this chip with NDIS?

many thanks
anton

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Re: wireless on HP compaq 6715s - Broadcom BCM5906m - not supported?

2010-07-05 Thread Paul B Mahol
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Anton Shterenlikht  wrote:
> I've HP Compaq 6715s laptop.
> Looking at "pciconf -lv" output, the
> wireless (and ethernet) device is:
>
>
> b...@pci0:16:0:0:       class=0x02 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x171314e4 
> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>    device     = 'Broadcom NetLink (TM) Fast Ethernet (BCM5906m)'
>    class      = network
>    subclass   = ethernet

I see only ethernet, which is supported fine.

>
> I tried to search on the net, including FBSD hardware release notes,
> and it seems this device is not supported.

For wireless check bwi(4) and bwn(4) manual pages.

> Can anybody comment on/confirm this please?
>
> Any experience using this chip with NDIS?

Works fine on i386, with few known problems with known workarounds.
amd64 is usually broken.
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Re: wireless on HP compaq 6715s - Broadcom BCM5906m - not supported?

2010-07-06 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 06:15:06PM +, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Anton Shterenlikht  
> wrote:
> > I've HP Compaq 6715s laptop.
> > Looking at "pciconf -lv" output, the
> > wireless (and ethernet) device is:
> >
> >
> > b...@pci0:16:0:0:       class=0x02 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x171314e4 
> > rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
> >    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> >    device     = 'Broadcom NetLink (TM) Fast Ethernet (BCM5906m)'
> >    class      = network
> >    subclass   = ethernet
> 
> I see only ethernet, which is supported fine.

Paul, thank you for your help.

HP manuals describe it as "integrated wireless LAN" device. 

well.. this also puzzled me. The thing is, this laptop has
a wireless button. When the laptop was running MS Windows XP,
the button could be used to enable/disable wireless. There
is a small LED on the button which lights up when wireless
is enabled.  After I installed FreeBSD 9.0-current, the button
is always off. I tried to press it during boot, while in BIOS,
and after boot - it is always off, at least the LED is always
off.

So I'm thinking perhaps wireless is off on a very low level,
and hence is not picked up by kernel?

I was hoping to hear from somebody who uses a similar laptop..

Here's the full pciconf -lv output:

# pciconf -lv
hos...@pci0:0:0:0:  class=0x06 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x79101002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'RS690 Host Bridge'
class  = bridge
subclass   = HOST-PCI
pc...@pci0:0:1:0:   class=0x060400 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x79121002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x01
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)'
class  = bridge
subclass   = PCI-PCI
pc...@pci0:0:4:0:   class=0x060400 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x79141002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x01
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
class  = bridge
subclass   = PCI-PCI
pc...@pci0:0:5:0:   class=0x060400 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x79151002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x01
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
class  = bridge
subclass   = PCI-PCI
pc...@pci0:0:6:0:   class=0x060400 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x79161002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x01
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2)'
class  = bridge
subclass   = PCI-PCI
atap...@pci0:0:18:0:class=0x01018f card=0x43801002 chip=0x43801002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'IXP SB600 Serial ATA Controller'
class  = mass storage
subclass   = ATA
oh...@pci0:0:19:0:  class=0x0c0310 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x43871002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'IXP SB600 USB Controller (OHCI0)'
class  = serial bus
subclass   = USB
oh...@pci0:0:19:1:  class=0x0c0310 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x43881002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'IXP SB600 USB Controller (OHCI1)'
class  = serial bus
subclass   = USB
oh...@pci0:0:19:2:  class=0x0c0310 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x43891002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'IXP SB600 USB Controller (OHCI2)'
class  = serial bus
subclass   = USB
oh...@pci0:0:19:3:  class=0x0c0310 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x438a1002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'IXP SB600 USB Controller (OHCI3)'
class  = serial bus
subclass   = USB
oh...@pci0:0:19:4:  class=0x0c0310 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x438b1002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'IXP SB600 USB Controller (OHCI4)'
class  = serial bus
subclass   = USB
eh...@pci0:0:19:5:  class=0x0c0320 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x43861002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'IXP SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)'
class  = serial bus
subclass   = USB
no...@pci0:0:20:0:  class=0x0c0500 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x43851002 rev=0x14 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'ATI SMBus (ATI RD600/RS600)'
class  = serial bus
subclass   = SMBus
atap...@pci0:0:20:1:class=0x010182 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x438c1002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'ATI RD600/RS600 IDE Controller (RD600/RS600)'
class  = mass storage
subclass   = ATA
no...@pci0:0:20:2:  class=0x040300 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x43831002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
ven

Re: wireless on HP compaq 6715s - Broadcom BCM5906m - not supported?

2010-07-06 Thread Warren Block

On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:


On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 06:15:06PM +, Paul B Mahol wrote:

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Anton Shterenlikht  wrote:

I've HP Compaq 6715s laptop.
Looking at "pciconf -lv" output, the
wireless (and ethernet) device is:


b...@pci0:16:0:0:       class=0x02 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x171314e4 rev=0x02 
hdr=0x00
   vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
   device     = 'Broadcom NetLink (TM) Fast Ethernet (BCM5906m)'
   class      = network
   subclass   = ethernet


I see only ethernet, which is supported fine.


Paul, thank you for your help.

HP manuals describe it as "integrated wireless LAN" device.

well.. this also puzzled me. The thing is, this laptop has
a wireless button. When the laptop was running MS Windows XP,
the button could be used to enable/disable wireless. There
is a small LED on the button which lights up when wireless
is enabled.  After I installed FreeBSD 9.0-current, the button
is always off. I tried to press it during boot, while in BIOS,
and after boot - it is always off, at least the LED is always
off.

So I'm thinking perhaps wireless is off on a very low level,
and hence is not picked up by kernel?


Disabled in the BIOS.  Or maybe the button is an actual switch and 
physically disconnects the device.  Without the LED working, it would be 
hard to tell if it's doing anything.


The BCM 5906 is a wired Ethernet, attached as device bge0.  The pciconf 
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