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To load the driver as a module at boot, add the following lines to loader.conf(5):
if_bwn_load="YES"
It supports station and monitor mode operation. Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).
This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. The ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod port needs to be installed before ifconfig(8) will work. In most cases the bwn_v4_ucode kernel module from the port should be used. However, if an LP (low power) PHY is being used, the bwn_v4_lp_ucode module should be used.
| Card | Chip | Bus | Standard |
Apple Airport Extreme Ta BCM4318 Ta PCI | b/g | ||
ASUS WL-138g Ta BCM4318 Ta PCI | b/g | ||
Buffalo WLI-CB-G54S Ta BCM4318 Ta CardBus | b/g | ||
Dell Wireless 1390 Ta BCM4311 Ta Mini PCI | b/g | ||
Dell Wireless 1470 Ta BCM4318 Ta Mini PCI | b/g | ||
Dell Truemobile 1400 Ta BCM4309 Ta Mini PCI | b/g | ||
HP Compaq 6715b Ta BCM4312 Ta PCI | b/g | ||
HP nx6125 Ta BCM4319 Ta PCI | b/g | ||
Linksys WPC54G Ver 3 Ta BCM4318 Ta CardBus | b/g | ||
Linksys WPC54GS Ver 2 Ta BCM4318 Ta CardBus | b/g | ||
US Robotics 5411 Ta BCM4318 Ta CardBus | b/g |
Users of older Broadcom chipsets (BCM4301, BCM4303 and BCM4306 rev 2) must use bwi(4) because the v4 version of the firmware does not support these chips. The newer firmware is too big to fit into these old chips.
ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwn0 inet 192.168.0.20 \
netmask 0xffffff00
Join a specific BSS network with network name "my_net":
ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwn0 ssid my_net up
Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:
ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwn0 ssid my_net \
wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up
| hw.bwn.usedma | |
| This tunable enables DMA operations on the hardware. If the value is 0, PIO mode would be used. The default value is 1. | |
| BWN (4) | December 16, 2017 |
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