From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 3 19:17:23 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 E3704106566B for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 19:17:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7906E8FC08 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 19:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb42 with SMTP id 42so957171wyb.13 for ; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:17:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=8QnqroII0rCWKlXpXd6lquCEoOp0BvrWl9suYcJmYpM=; b=BYdtSOJU3oDohq7oY5urZYRx5UZsS5onP99w1ZBAHg+G26zNmobbyYmAOc1eEpOsjI 9jkYLxK7Si7TpHa04pLqbW3vuUgQtfWHbG6A4kaNAURGmGVKS067eNijWlV2qeVg8faD QzRkrq2Et22JC2vQwErQqMoEg4lITWdZRrp2E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=KFHb5HHmbm4uaOsQapjFogDq7iIALLRBok9rBMiw3HLb2bCTznGZXZnKe3ByIf0tR3 tnrLvIL4mC1hriQhi+LvwtXzbTWEYC0g2ezBn75eA9aIAZTkvxN1RdDvYJoIkxvfFVEs q3qBzvjSQCAbqJ4KnAfF+7/3HTaQQlE/NLsbs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.142.206 with SMTP id r14mr6206979wbu.147.1288811841970; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:17:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.50.140 with HTTP; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 12:17:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:17:21 +0100 Message-ID: From: Paul B Mahol To: Chris Brennan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: '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 19:17:24 -0000 On 11/3/10, Chris Brennan wrote: > 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. NDISulator support for amd64 is currently broken. You can try http://gitorious.org/NDISulator but note that amd64 does not work for me too. > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >