Fwd: NetBSD on MacBook 4.1

[סטֵפָן פָּבִיקֵבִיק <theanapplegeek%gmail.com@localhost>]

Actually I can't really boot FreeBSD nor DragonflyBSD, because they give me
panic on ACPI, and even with disabled ACPI, DragonflyBSD doesn't boot,
FreeBSD 64 bit will boot from time to time, but when I had PC-BSD (32 bit)
there was some partial success in booting, but Wi-Fi never worked. I even
upgraded to 9.1 BETA, but didn't work.

I will also try OpenBSD these days, if I get my drive to read the OpenBSD
CD, because it doesn't want to read CDs. Only DVDs. I have NetBSD on DVD,
and that's how I installed it.

Best regards,
Stefan.


On 7 August 2012 22:01, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On 7 August 2012 15:41, סטֵפָן פָּבִיקֵבִיק 
> <theanapplegeek%gmail.com@localhost>
> wrote:
> > On 7 August 2012 10:22, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> >>
> >> It might be worth downloading a current kernel from
> >> http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/ and test booting it
> >> (I'm sure you already know how, but just in case :) - extract it as
> >> /netbsd-current, drop into the boot loader and boot with 'boot
> >> /netbsd-current') to see if any additional devices are already
> >> supported in current.
> >
> > I just did that. But nothing changed. Wanna see a dmesg maybe?
> >
> >>> - Broadcom BCM43xx (driver available in OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD; I don't
> >>> know if it works; broadcom_sta hybrid driver for Linux released by
> >>> Broadcom)
>
> Both OpenBSD and  DragonFly use a very similar bwi driver to the one
> in NetBSD (it looks like the driver originated in  DragonFly).
>
> You appear to have a BCM4306 (PCI dev id 0x4321) rev 3
>
> bwi0: BBP id 0x4321, BBP rev 0x3, BBP pkg 0
>
> and the critical error in your dmesg seems to be the
>
> bwi0: unsupported PHY type 4
>
> which is coming from sys/dev/ic/bwi.c bwi_phy_attach() when it tries
> to setup the PHY. It has supported entries for
> BWI_PHYINFO_TYPE_11{A,B,G}, so I would suspect your BCM4306 is an 11N
> part.
>
> (checks the source)
>
> aha: sys/dev/ic/bwireg.h:#define BWI_PHYINFO_TYPE_11N           4
>
> I've had a quick check through the DragonFly, FreeBSD and OpenBSD
> sources, and they (like NetBSD) define BWI_PHYINFO_TYPE_11N in a
> header, but do not appear to have code to support that PHY type. Now
> one of them could have a different driver with a duplicate set of
> defines.
>
> > If not, what next thing should I try? Is there someone who can help me
> > on
> > this?
>
> If you test boot any of the other BSDs did any of them give a
> different probe message for the wireless - do they all show up as bwi0
> with the same messages?
>
> Thanks