From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 26 17:02:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3CB716A404 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:02:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cfaber@ruckusmail.com) Received: from unixgr.com (unixgr.com [63.224.69.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7738243F17 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:01:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cfaber@ruckusmail.com) Received: from [168.116.81.137] ([208.49.79.59]) (authenticated bits=0) by unixgr.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k5QI4RTl003603; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:04:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from cfaber@ruckusmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: unixgr.com: Host [208.49.79.59] claimed to be [168.116.81.137] Message-ID: <44A012DE.8060301@ruckusmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:01:18 -0600 From: Colin Faber User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mark A-J. Raught" References: <4498A387.9040303@ruckusmail.com> <4499FC84.5090205@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <4499FC84.5090205@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom bcmwl5 NDIS driver and Dell D610 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:02:03 -0000 Hi Mark, After messing around with it for a while I found a driver which did work. I was able to successfully get ndis0 to appear and after hitting the Fn+F2 button and starting ndis_events I could see some access points. The problem I'm having now is that when I do connect to an access point (with wpa_supplicant -D ndis -i ndis0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf) DHCP doesn't appear to work right. What I'm seeing is that the DHCP requests issued by the AP it self are ignored, however if I allow DHCP requests through the AP from say my cable modem, those are accepted and collected. This problem does not exist if I establish a link to the AP with my ural USB card. Also, a quick note on the Fn+F2 thing. Though the LED which indicates wireless card broadcast status does not turn on and stays off, It does seem to switch the mode from off to on. -cf Mark A-J. Raught wrote: >> > > I am currently running linux on my laptop with the broadcom card in > it, but I had a couple problems when I first set it up in FreeBSD. > Here are some tips I can give, hopefully they'll help. First I had 2 > inf files available and I needed to use the ascii one (bcmwl5a.inf) > and the sys file (bcmwl5.sys) with the other file (bcmwl5.inf) it > appeared to work, but no love. This was about a year ago, so it may > not matter now. > > The other main thing is to make sure your wireless is physically on. > On my laptop I need to hold the Fn button and hit F2. That turns the > wireless on and off. However, the first time I needed to go into the > BIOS and set it to ON instead of Last Used (or LAST STATE, or > somesuch) that leaves it in the last state it was in. After it started > once, I could then change the BIOS back and it worked properly after > that. > > Finally, make sure you are following the correct directions, the last > time I needed to use NDIS I set it all up and it seemed to be correct, > but you needed to use some wizard instead of the "classic" way. This > also may have changed since then (again about a year ago). > > -mark > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"