Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 08:12:22 -0400 From: Thomas Laus <lausts@laus.org> To: swhetzel@gmail.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD Port: b43-fwcutter-015 Message-ID: <af976c86-6302-778d-3dc1-00b4906fa9f7@mail.laus.org>
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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 -- Public Keys: PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF
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