I wouldn't call it obvious.  :)  It looks like there's at least a difference in where the firmware blobs are kept.  I don't really know how much difference there is in the driver code, but I would expect that there would be a file in /sys/src/9/bcm that is analogous to ether4330.c.  But I'll have to leave it to others who are more knoledgable about the 9front internals to follow up with more details.
In the absence of a more definitive direction, I'd grep the source files in /sys/src/9/bcm for the string 4345.  As a hex number, that is the chip ID for the 802.11 interface on the 4s.  The revision number on the original 4s was 6, but the revision on my 400 is 9.  In the 9legacy version that I use, the different IDs are listed in an array of structures:
struct {
    int chipid;
    int chiprev;
    char *fwfile;
    char *cfgfile;
    char *regufile;
} firmware[] = {
    { 0x4330, 3,    "fw_bcm40183b1.bin", config40183, 0 },
    { 0x4330, 4,    "fw_bcm40183b2.bin", config40183, 0 },
    { 43362, 0,    "fw_bcm40181a0.bin", config40181, 0 },
    { 43362, 1,    "fw_bcm40181a2.bin", config40181, 0 },
    { 43430, 1,    "brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin", "brcmfmac43430-sdio.txt", 0 },
    { 43430, 2,    "brcmfmac43436-sdio.bin", "brcmfmac43436-sdio.txt",  "brcmfmac43436-sdio.clm_blob" },
    { 0x4345, 6, "brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin", "brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt", "brcmfmac43455-sdio.clm_blob" },
    { 0x4345, 9, "brcmfmac43456-sdio.bin", "brcmfmac43456-sdio.txt", "brcmfmac43456-sdio.clm_blob" },
};

The code then runs through the array comparing the ID and rev read from the controller.  When it finds a match, it sends over the various blobs.  The code that looks for the blobs in the 9legacy driver is:

    if(!waserror()){
        snprint(nbuf, sizeof nbuf, "/boot/%s", file);
        c = namec(nbuf, Aopen, OREAD, 0);
        poperror();
    }else if(!waserror()){
        snprint(nbuf, sizeof nbuf, "/sys/lib/firmware/%s", file);
        c = namec(nbuf, Aopen, OREAD, 0);
        poperror();

If it's the same in 9front, then the blobs you have might be /boot which would be necessary if you were going to take the root from a file server over wifi.  I don't ever run mine that way, so it's more convenient for me to put them in /sys/lib/firmware.
As before, I'll need to leave it to a 9front expert to point out any of my suppositions that are wrong.

Sorry for the delay.  I took a couple of hours out to take advantage of a break in the clouds here to test my setup for the eclipse on Monday.  And btw, the computer I'll have there will be my 400 running Plan 9 with the file system I'll be talking about at IWP9 next weekend.

BLS


    On Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 07:15:16 AM UTC, taylor.garry@gmail.com <taylor.garry@gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Hi Brian, 
Thanks for your help, does it make a difference that I'm using 9front? I don't even seem to have a /sys/lib/firmware directory, and I'm not sure I have a ether4330.c either. 

I'm sure it's obvious, but I'm a newcomer to Plan 9 and I apologise in advance if I'm missing obvious things.

Thanks

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