From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 3 18:45:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D4F1065670 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:45:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41BE68FC08 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so509302ewy.13 for ; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:45:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.108.196 with SMTP id g4mr848796ebp.31.1288808079696; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:14:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.15.195 with HTTP; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 11:14:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Brennan Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:14:19 -0400 Message-ID: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)' X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:45:34 -0000 I figured the general users list was a good place to start. I'm somewhat new to FreeBSD still, I have one fbsd7.3 home server and it serves it's purposes quite nicely. I decided to installed FreeBSD64 on my laptop. For the most part, things went very well. I got X/Gnome/OOo3 (for school) installed and am trucking along quite nicely. My Hiccup as the subject suggests is about my Wireless Card. I have been following the handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/config-network-setup.html) on how to use 64-bit Windows drivers coupled w/ ndisgen to get my wireless card working. I got ndisgen to generate a kernel module but it immediately caused my laptop to reboot when the kernel was loaded. This left me scratching my head. I think I might need firmware (I remember having to extract firmware from the driver for linux). pciconf shows the following: [root@BlackDragon [~]# pciconf -lv | grep -A3 0x4315 none8@pci0:8:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x137c103c chip=0x431514e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)' class = network [root@BlackDragon [~]# The laptop is an HP dv2845SE and it's running FreebSD64-8.1. Let me know if I missed anything. Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward.... ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org