Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:51:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Whipple <whip@gocougs.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom WLAN on HP dv9000 Message-ID: <9699748.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <20070311190714.24556.qmail@web63308.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <20070311190714.24556.qmail@web63308.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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Good day. I have a Dell Insipron with a Broadcom wireless card. I have attempted the same steps below and received the same results. Has anyone been successful with the broadcom cards on Freebsd 6.2 amd64? Thanks, Whipple BSDUser UserBSD wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been reading different posts on how to make the onboard Broadcom > WLAN card to work with FreeBSD 6.2-Release. > > I have been using FreeBSD since version 4 so I have some knowledge about > it. > > System Specs: > > HP Pavilion dv9000 > > AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 (2 GHz) > > 1 GB RAM > > Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN (chip 4312, BCM4310 UART, none12@pci3:0:0:) > > Anyway, this is what I have done: > My system is a HP Pavilion dv9000, so it already came shipped with an > operating system. > Using this system I figured out that the onboard WLAN card is a Broadcom > 802.11a/b/g WLAN card using Driver Version: 4.40.19.0. > I first started to go to www.hp.com and search for Windows 64-bit drivers > for this card, but could not find any. What I found were the Windows Vista > 64 drivers, which I downloaded. > > I continued my search which led me to this webpage: > http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/hpsp33008.tar.gz/view?searchterm=hpsp33008 > > I downloaded those drivers as well. > > I downloaded the FreeBSD 6.2-Release amd64 iso images, burned them on cd's > and booted the computer with disc 1. > > While booting I new that the system would freeze, so I started it by > entering: > # set hint.apic.0.disabled="1" > # boot > > and installed it without any further problems. > > After installation I started the system again by disabling apic, logged in > with my user account, copied the driver files to the system through a > flash drive. > > Thereafter I created the driver module: > # ndisgen bcmwl5.inf bcmwl564.sys > > Loading the module produced the following error message: > # kldload ./bcmwl564_sys.ko > no match for strrchr > no match for MmFreeContiguousMemorySpecifyCache > no match for MmAllocateContiguousMemorySpecifyCache > no match for MmGetPhysicalAddress > ndis0: <Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN> mem 0xc0400000-0xc0403fff at device 0.0 > on pci3 > ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1 > fpudna in kernel mode! > ndoskrnl dummy called... > > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > cpuid = 0; apic id = 00 > fault virtual address = 0x1a > fault code = supervisor read, page not present > instruction pointer = 0x8:0xffffffffa83511eb > stack pointer = 0x10:0xffffffffa56461b0 > frame pointer = 0x10:0xffffffffa83b8140 > code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b > = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1 > processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 > current process = 865 (kldload) > trap number = 12 > panic: page fault > cpuid = 0 > Uptime: 4m17s > Cannot dump. No dump device defined. > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort > --> Press a key on the console to reboot, > --> or switch off the system now. > > > > I also tried to upgrade ndis which I found on one of the lists using the > following procedure: > > # setenv CVSROOT anoncvs at anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs > # cvs checkout -rRELENG_6 src/sys/compat/ndis src/sys/dev/if_ndis > > Copied the files to src/sys/compat/ndis and src/sys/dev/if_ndis, > then rebuilt ndis.ko and if_ndis.ko: > > # cd /sys/modules/ndis > # make; make install > # cd /sys/modules/if_ndis > # make; make install > > > and ran the command again: > # kldload ./bcmwl564_sys.ko > > but it resulted in the same error message. > I also tried the Vista 64-bit drivers, but unfortunately the result was > the same. > > Can someone please give me some recommendations on how to solve this > problem? > > Regards > > FreeBSD 6.2 User :D > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss an email again! > Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Broadcom-WLAN-on-HP-dv9000-tf3385561.html#a9699748 Sent from the freebsd-mobile mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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