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25.\" $FreeBSD$
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27.Dd February 25, 2010
28.Dt BWN 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm bwn
32.Nd Broadcom BCM43xx IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34To compile this driver into the kernel,
35place the following lines in your
36kernel configuration file:
37.Bd -ragged -offset indent
38.Cd "device siba_bwn"
39.Cd "device bwn"
40.Cd "device wlan"
41.Cd "device wlan_amrr"
42.Cd "device firmware"
43.Ed
44.Pp
45Alternatively, to load the driver as a
46module at boot time, place the following line in
47.Xr loader.conf 5 :
48.Bd -literal -offset indent
49if_bwn_load="YES"
50.Ed
51.Sh DESCRIPTION
52The
53.Nm
54driver provides support for Broadcom BCM43xx based
55PCI/CardBus network adapters.
56.Pp
57It supports
58.Cm station
59and
60.Cm monitor
61mode operation.
62Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time.
63For more information on configuring this device, see
64.Xr ifconfig 8 .
65.Pp
66This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work.
67The
68.Pa ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod
69port needs to be installed before
70.Xr ifconfig 8
71will work.
72Most cases you need to use bwn_v4_ucode module but if you are a
73LP (low power) PHY user please uses bwn_v4_lp_ucode module.
74.Sh HARDWARE
75The
76.Nm
77driver supports Broadcom BCM43xx based wireless devices, including:
78.Pp
79.Bl -column -compact "Apple Airport Extreme" "BCM4306" "Mini PCI" "a/b/g" -offset 6n
80.It Em "Card	Chip	Bus	Standard"
81.It "Apple Airport Extreme	BCM4306	PCI	b/g"
82.It "Apple Airport Extreme	BCM4318	PCI	b/g"
83.It "ASUS WL-138g	BCM4318	PCI	b/g"
84.It "Buffalo WLI-CB-G54S	BCM4318	CardBus	b/g"
85.It "Buffalo WLI-PCI-G54S	BCM4306	PCI	b/g"
86.It "Compaq R4035 onboard	BCM4306	PCI	b/g"
87.It "Dell Wireless 1470	BCM4318	Mini PCI	b/g"
88.It "Dell Truemobile 1400	BCM4309	Mini PCI	b/g"
89.It "HP nx6125	BCM4319	PCI	b/g"
90.It "Linksys WPC54G Ver 3	BCM4318	CardBus	b/g"
91.It "Linksys WPC54GS Ver 2	BCM4318	CardBus	b/g"
92.It "TRENDnet TEW-401PCplus	BCM4306	CardBus	b/g"
93.It "US Robotics 5411	BCM4318	CardBus	b/g"
94.El
95.Sh EXAMPLES
96Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
97.Pp
98.Bd -literal -offset indent
99ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwn0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e
100    netmask 0xffffff00
101.Ed
102.Pp
103Join a specific BSS network with network name
104.Dq Li my_net :
105.Pp
106.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwn0 ssid my_net up"
107.Pp
108Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:
109.Bd -literal -offset indent
110ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwn0 ssid my_net \e
111        wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up
112.Ed
113.Sh SEE ALSO
114.Xr arp 4 ,
115.Xr cardbus 4 ,
116.Xr intro 4 ,
117.Xr pci 4 ,
118.Xr wlan 4 ,
119.Xr wlan_amrr 4 ,
120.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
121.Xr wpa_supplicant 8
122.Sh HISTORY
123The
124.Nm
125driver first appeared in
126.Fx 8.1 .
127.Sh AUTHORS
128.An -nosplit
129The
130.Nm
131driver was written by
132.An Weongyo Jeong
133.Aq weongyo@FreeBSD.org .
134.\".Sh BUGS
135.\"Some card based on the BCM4306 and BCM4309 chips do not work properly
136.\"on channel 1, 2 and 3.
137