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On 04/10/17 08:12, Thomas Laus wrote:
> Is there any hope for this Broadcom wireless chip running on a Compaq
> F500 laptop?  It was successful running Ubuntu 16 using the legacy
> Broadcom package of drivers.  I installed the suggested FreeBSD ports
> for Broadcom wireless and loaded it as a loader.conf module.
>
> Apr  10 10:17:46 presario kernel: bwi0: <Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g
> Wireless Lan> mem 0xb8000000-0xb8003fff at device 0.0 on pci2
> Apr  10 10:17:46 presario kernel: bwi0: BBP: id 0x4311, rev 0x2, pkg 0
> Apr  10 10:17:46 presario kernel: bwi0: MAC rev 13 is not supported
> Apr  10 10:17:46 presario kernel: bwi0: no MAC was found
> Apr  10 10:17:46 presario kernel: device_attach: bwi0 attach returned 6
> Apr  10 10:17:54 presario kernel: bwi0: <Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g
> Wireless Lan> mem 0xb8000000-0xb8003fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
> Apr  10 10:17:54 presario kernel: bwi0: BBP: id 0x4311, rev 0x2, pkg 0
> Apr  10 10:17:54 presario kernel: bwi0: MAC rev 13 is not supported
> Apr  10 10:17:54 presario kernel: bwi0: no MAC was found
> Apr  10 10:17:54 presario kernel: device_attach: bwi0 attach returned 6
>
>
> Tom
>

Good luck with this, I have a laptop as well with the BCM4311.  and it 
just doesn't work with FreeBSD 11.0.  I had it working with 10.1 though.

I contacted the maintainer and did not hear from him/them.  Guess they 
couldn't be bothered.