Hi,
I got a PowerBook G4 12' from 2005 running FreeBSD 10.3 for PowerPC and I'm currently struggling to set up wireless networking on it. Using Ethernet everything works fine.
The wireless card is the Broadcom BCM4306 revision 3. According to the manpages bwi(4) should be the driver I need. But when use bwi (either loaded or compiled into the kernel) it crashes and creates a boot loop.
After that I tried the newer driver bwn(4) which loads without crashes and bwn0 is listed by
Following the section from the handbook on wireless networking has not worked for me.
More specifically:
I created /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and put the network credentials into it:
The relevant entries in the /etc/rc.conf are:
restarting the network interface with
The output of the command is:
pinging google results in
Simply running
Now being new to FreeBSD and networking on FreeBSD I hope someone can point me to the source of the issue.
Best,
Alexander
I got a PowerBook G4 12' from 2005 running FreeBSD 10.3 for PowerPC and I'm currently struggling to set up wireless networking on it. Using Ethernet everything works fine.
The wireless card is the Broadcom BCM4306 revision 3. According to the manpages bwi(4) should be the driver I need. But when use bwi (either loaded or compiled into the kernel) it crashes and creates a boot loop.
After that I tried the newer driver bwn(4) which loads without crashes and bwn0 is listed by
ifconfig
Following the section from the handbook on wireless networking has not worked for me.
More specifically:
I created /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and put the network credentials into it:
Code:
network={
ssid="myssid" # this is not the actual ssid
psk="my_psk" # again not the actual psk
}
The relevant entries in the /etc/rc.conf are:
Code:
wlans_bwi0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP" # I also tried "WPA DHCP"
restarting the network interface with
service netif restart
run as root does not yield a working wireless connection.The output of the command is:
Code:
fw_tl_free: the xfer is not in the queue (tlabel=0, flag=0x0)
send: dst=0x00 tl=0x00 rt=0 tcode=0x0 pri=0x0 src=0x000
recv: dst=0x00 tl=0x00 rt=0 tcode=0x0 pri=0x0 src=0x000
KDB: stack backtrace:
#0 0x1a76e0 at fw_tl_free+0x174
#1 0x1a79b4 at fw_xfer_unload+0x16c
#2 0x1a7a38 at fw_xfer_free+0x40
#3 0x1b5f54 at fwe_stop+0xd8
#4 0x1b7008 at fwe_ioctl+0xb4
#5 0x55bb0c at ifioctl+0xf94
#6 0x4daa3c at soo_ioctl+0x6b8
#7 0x4d2c04 at kern_ioctl+0x354
#8 0x4d2e90 at sys_ioctl+0x128
#9 0x7882d0 at trap+0x6cc
#10 0x779028 at powerpc_interrupt+0x170
<this is repeated about 20 times>
gem0: cannot reset RX MAC
<repeated three times>
dhclient not running? (check /var/run/dhclient.fwe0.pid)
dhclient not running? (check /var/run/dhclient.fwe0.pid)
Stopping Network: lo0 bwn0 fwe0 gem0 pflog0.
<output of ifconfig with all down>
Starting Network: lo0 bwn0 fwe0 gem0
<output of ifconfig with bwn0 down with status: no carrier and others up>
pinging google results in
Code:
ping: cannot resolve google.com: Host name lookup failure
Simply running
service netif start
doesn't print any errors but also does not result in a working network connection.Now being new to FreeBSD and networking on FreeBSD I hope someone can point me to the source of the issue.
Best,
Alexander