Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:57:11 +0000 From: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> To: Jeff Dowsley <jeff.dowsley@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom USB wireless support? Message-ID: <3a142e751002151757u5916074fka9844a70295208dc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1AAFC89E-D1B3-49A7-805F-8DA753C4934E@mac.com>
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On 2/16/10, Jeff Dowsley <jeff.dowsley@mac.com> wrote: > Gentles > > I have an old HP Pavillion DV6000 laptop, which has a Broadcom USB > wireless device. Worked under Windows Vista. I installed freeBSD 8- > stable, and see as the last line in dmesg > > ugen2.2: <Broadcom Corp> at usbus2 > > Ferreting with google suggests that 8.0 might have usb support for > the ndis wrapper, but I am unable to get any joy either using the HP > bcmwl5 drivers for the DV6000, or in attempting to use the bwi driver. > > (I have an old Compaq N1020 with a LinkSys wireless PCMCIA card, > which I have successfully generated the ndis wrapper and works > happily under 8-stable) > > Any thoughts? Firts, make sure you are using right driver. Second make sure that driver is for XP, because NDISulator supports only 5.1 NDIS api.home | help
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