Should I go from 8.2 to 9.0 to get wireless working

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mrhobbeys

I've been looking around and trying things to get my BCM4311 wireless card working on 8.2. So far loading bwn, and following a few other posts I have found has not worked. If someone knows something I am missing I am all ears, but what I am thinking right now is just installing 9.0. Has anyone got this card and can say it works?
 
Wireless works on Dell D830 with Broadcom BCM4311

My wireless works now. I'm running 9.0-RELEASE_AMD64 on a Dell D830 notebook with a Broadcom BCM4311.

I installed this firmware for the BWN driver:

# cd /usr/ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod/ && make install clean

I added this to my /boot/loader.conf:

Code: 
if_bwn_load="YES"
bwn_v4_ucode_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"

I added this to my /etc/rc.conf. I like to run one or the other so I just use a comment and reboot:

Code: 
# Wired
#ifconfig_bge0="DHCP"

# Wireless
wlans_bwn0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"

I created this file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and added:

Code: 
network={
  ssid="House_of_FBSD"
  psk="MySecretPassword"
}

One of these BIOS settings was causing a problem with the RF Switch going off and on. I have not tested every combination. These settings work for me:

Code: 
Main Screen-->Wireless -->
Internal Bluetooth = Off
Internal Wi-Fi = Enabled
Internal Cellular = Off
Wireless Switch = None
Wi-Fi Catcher = Off

Here is some output:

Code: 
fbsd-nb ~ $ dmesg | grep bwn | grep -v decrypt
siba_bwn0: <Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g Wireless> mem 0xf9ffc000-0xf9ffffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci12
siba_bwn0: unsupported coreid (USB 1.1 Host)
bwn0 on siba_bwn0
bwn0: WLAN (chipid 0x4311 rev 10) PHY (analog 4 type 2 rev 8) RADIO (manuf 0x17f ver 0x2050 rev 2)
bwn0: DMA (32 bits)
bwn0: Using 1 MSI messages
bwn0: firmware version (rev 410 patch 2160 date 0x751a time 0x7c0a)
bwn0: status of RF switch is changed to OFF

Code: 
fbsd-nb ~ $ sysctl -a | grep bwn
net.wlan.0.%parent: bwn0
hw.bwn.wme: 1
hw.bwn.usedma: 1
hw.bwn.hwpctl: 0
hw.bwn.bluetooth: 1
hw.bwn.bfp: 0
dev.siba_bwn.0.%desc: Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g Wireless
dev.siba_bwn.0.%driver: siba_bwn
dev.siba_bwn.0.%location: slot=0 function=0 handle=\_SB_.PCI0.RP02.PXS2
dev.siba_bwn.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x14e4 device=0x4311 subvendor=0x1028 subdevice=0x0007 class=0x028000
dev.siba_bwn.0.%parent: pci12
dev.bwn.0.%driver: bwn
dev.bwn.0.%parent: siba_bwn0
dev.bwn.0.linknoise: 0
dev.bwn.0.rts: 0
dev.bwn.0.rtsfail: 0[/CMD]

[CMD=""]fbsd-nb ~ $ kldstat | grep bwn
 2    1 0xffffffff813ce000 415e0    if_bwn.ko
 3    2 0xffffffff81410000 ccd0     siba_bwn.ko
 4    1 0xffffffff8141d000 2ba18    bwn_v4_ucode.ko

Code: 
fbsd-nb ~ $ uname -rm
9.0-RELEASE amd64

Useful links:

BWN Man Page
FBSD Handbook Chapter 32.3 Wireless Networking
 
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