Broadcom BCM43225 - Add a Broadcom 43xx Wifi Driver

[vooshy]

Could the Broadcom Wifi driver be updated to support newer devices.

I have a Broadcom 43225 I can test on.

[korli]

I don't think this device is actually supported by FreeBSD at the moment.

Also important: on FreeBSD bwi seems to be obsoleted by bwn for newest devices.

[vooshy]

Updated ticket title to Add a new driver as it seems that FreeBSD doesn't support BCM-43225

Broadcom have released a Linux Driver for this device but its probably too Linux orientated to be configured for Haiku.

Broadcom would like to announce the initial release of a fully-open
Linux driver for it's latest generation of 11n chipsets. The driver,
while still a work in progress, is released as full source and uses the
native mac80211 stack. It supports multiple current chips (BCM4313,
BCM43224, BCM43225) as well as providing a framework for supporting
additional chips in the future, including mac80211-aware embedded chips.
The README and TODO files included with the sources provide more
details about the current feature set, known issues, and plans for
improving the driver.

The driver is currently available in staging-next git tree, available at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-next-2.6.git

in the drivers/staging/brcm80211 directory.

[taos]

FreeBSD's bwn.4 still doesn't mention any bcm4322x devices, however, it seems that bcm43224 and bcm43225 are included under the bcma_devices section in if_bwn_pci.c. I still have a bcm43225 card in my netbook, so I'll try to find out if at least FreeBSD 12 actually includes a working driver for this device.

[Coldfirex]

Its listed as supported since 2017 within FreeBSD. Did you ever test this out in Haiku?

[hypersonic]

It's still not working for me on my Thinkpad Edge 11. Tested beta3, and haiku-master-hrev55742-x86_gcc2h

Here's what it appear in Linux:

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and mastersubsidiaries BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01)

Network card display - hrev55742-x86_gcc2h-network.png​ ("Driver Used: unknown")

syslog: hrev55742-x86_gcc2h-syslog

[hd999]

have the same problem there, even with the nightly build, updating from the beta rc2 didnt changed the issue

[brendan]

4322x support appears to be provided by the bwn driver, not bwi: ​https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/908f215e80fa482aa953c39afa6bb516f561fc00/sys/dev/bwn/if_bwn_pci.c#L99-L101