Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 08:33:46 -0500 From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: raf.ponsaerts@med.kuleuven.be Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broadcom (bcm4319) wireless card on amd64 Message-ID: <790a9fff0605150633l4639d970q4bfe7545ed559ba@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1147699246.49891.12.camel@BSD-amd64.med.ad10.intern.kuleuven.be> References: <1147699246.49891.12.camel@BSD-amd64.med.ad10.intern.kuleuven.be>
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------=_Part_897_592540.1147700026801 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 5/15/06, raf ponsaerts <raf.ponsaerts@med.kuleuven.be> wrote: > I've already posted this message to "FreeBSD-Questions", about 2 days > ago. I got no response ... maybe someone on this list has any idea... > My appologies for posting twice and being impatient. > > > hi all, > > > > I have a new laptop which runs on FreeBSD6.1beta-amd64 (Turion64 > > ML-34). > > > > The only problem I have is getting the wireless interface up. > > > > none3@pci6:2:0: class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x1359103c chip=3D0x431914e4 > > rev=3D0x02 > > hdr=3D0x00 > > vendor =3D 'Broadcom Corporation' > > class =3D network > > > > It seems to me I need a driver which supports bcm4319. > > I read about the unwillingness of broadcom to support the development > > of > > a native FreeBSD-driver. > > > > I am aware of the "Evil project" and the "ndisgen" tool. So, I used > > WinXP drivers > > (bcmwl5.inf, bcmwl5.sys) to build a module, which loads without any > > comment. > > > > However, ifconfig does not show the wireless interface ... > > > > When I take a look at the ndiswrapper-list, I see that such cards work > > on linux-amd64. > > > > Does anyone know a way to get past this problem? > > Does bcmwl5.inf needs some tweaking? > > You need the Broadcom ndis 64bit driver from Windows XP/64. The one you used was a 32bit driver. I have attached the 64bit ndis driver for the Broadcom Wireless. I don't remember where I originally obtained it from. Scot NOTE: 80211g.zp is actually a .zip file, renamed extension to get around gmail zip file protection. --=20 DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised. ------=_Part_897_592540.1147700026801--
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