Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:50:22 -0500 From: Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Broadcom wireless NIC on R3000 Message-ID: <423F87EE.6000605@charter.net>
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After getting ACPI working with Kim's hints on this list and waiting for several useful commits to -STABLE, ACPI works and my parallel port along with it. That leaves the onboard Wifi capability as the only thing I can't use on FreeBSD. The realtek NIC has always worked fine, but I only recently got the kernel to recognize the Broadcom wireless NIC. Using the 64-bit ndisulator and a downloaded windows driver that was linked to on this list a month or two ago, I can load the right modules and get the right device probe messages, etc. The interface shows up in ifconfig too, but it's always "no-carrier", no matter what settings I try, and the little blue WiFi indicator light doesn't go on like it does in Windows. According to the manual, the antenna is turned on and off by the toggle button right next to the indicator light. I take that to mean that there's some sort of interface that physically controls signals to/from the antenna, and that it's set to "off" by default in FreeBSD. Ergo no connection to the antenna --> no carrier --> no joy. Has anyone tackled this problem before? Google hasn't given me any leads. Andrew Lankford
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