From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 31 07:04:44 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98859C04 for ; Fri, 31 May 2013 07:04:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allen.versfeld@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-x22c.google.com (mail-we0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::22c]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 323AF902 for ; Fri, 31 May 2013 07:04:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f172.google.com with SMTP id w62so952142wes.31 for ; Fri, 31 May 2013 00:04:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:to:subject:references:date:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:from:organization:message-id:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=r/y8bsB+bgbg5P84hnBZB6AELBQesNsWFL5okDxu5CU=; b=ihnK5asZqAGbHYHBC2XGh8QxWmBx1MgWYBLvFPLpqjXM0Yw1qQfzsjya9BijYHxa4s 4pjJzycrF4xJJqRJQT2KHSK9vD8piHW8INZOD3gZTFYLpc8kwUxS8gHkhBU5oPNqb0ga E76HAWmMPmNaCucD4nNs7qexhEvNnqDGelMcom+EnxWQubSea5VSkoh6W1XgGwV4stxD V6nrxAJL1/2zys7szbYeo2moMSkBKelzSt7HbEbLnj2o9IEMqlFrdjpR7n0B0njHVIGS T6433AXShXc8JZ4ySgsoph4IcE61buGS9GXUYkIJe2udnlAvGxXkV9DBj9VAK57qJpEQ M+Pg== X-Received: by 10.181.13.112 with SMTP id ex16mr1896759wid.28.1369983883251; Fri, 31 May 2013 00:04:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pta-allenv-06.africa.enterprise.root ([165.233.47.163]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id fu14sm1873433wic.0.2013.05.31.00.04.41 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 31 May 2013 00:04:42 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BCM43225 802.11b/g/n support ? References: <201305310113.r4V1DQid018804@fire.js.berklix.net> Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 09:04:37 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Allen Versfeld" Organization: Urban Astronomer Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <201305310113.r4V1DQid018804@fire.js.berklix.net> User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.15 (FreeBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 07:04:44 -0000 Hi Julian I'm running a BCM43228 chip -- not so different from yours -- in an HP ProBook 6570b. NDIS is the only option and it does mostly work, if you can tolerate unexpected restarts. I can usually get a few hours work in before it goes wrong. Disappointing but there apparently just isn't anybody available to work on support for these chips at the moment so we have to live with it! Regards Allen Versfeld On Fri, 31 May 2013 03:13:25 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org > Anyone known of code [to test] for [native] support > on 9.1-RELEASE (or current) for > > (from pciconf -lv ) > none3@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0xe021105b chip=0x435714e4 > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > device = 'BCM43225 802.11b/g/n' > class = network > > I did a seach, some clues: > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29839 > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2431079 > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=201805#post201805 > http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=15901 > > Is NDIS the way to go ? (or an external USB run0: I also have ?) > > My notes on my laptop: Acer Aspire 5741 > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/acer/aspire/5741/ > > Cheers, > Julian > - -- > Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich > http://berklix.com > Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". > Send plain text. No quoted-printable, HTML, base64, > multipart/alternative. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/