Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:28:41 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: mobile@freebsd.org Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Recognizing & using a Broadcom wireless mini-PCI card? Message-ID: <20150410152841.GI15644@albert.catwhisker.org>
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My current laptop (Dell Precision M4800) mostly works well under
FreeBSD; one of its shortcomings is that the wireless card with which it
came shows up as :
none1@pci0:3:0:0: class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x00171028 chip=3D0x43b114e=
4 rev=3D0x03 hdr=3D0x00
vendor =3D 'Broadcom Corporation'
class =3D network
After reading bwn(4) a bit, I had thought/hoped that perhaps the
lack of recognition of the device was because I hadn't loaded the kernel mo=
dules that bwn(4) cited. So I tried inserting:
if_bwn_load=3D"YES"
# siba_bwn_load=3D"YES"
bwn_v4_lp_ucode_load=3D"YES"
bwn_v4_ucode_load=3D"YES"
into /boot/loader.conf & rebooting (to ensure that the modules were
present as early as possible... no joy: the above was obtained after
such a reboot.
As a circumvention, I've swpped the iwn(4) card in from my revious
laptop, but it's not exactly ideal, either.
How might I help get the above-described Broadcom device functional
in a FreeBSD environment?
Thanks!
Peace,
david
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