From nobody Mon Oct 2 15:01:35 2023 X-Original-To: freebsd-wireless@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4Rzkgd027lz4w9RQ for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2023 15:01:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from mx1.sbone.de (cross.sbone.de [195.201.62.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx1.sbone.de", Issuer "SBone.DE Root Certificate Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Rzkgb5p54z4Cn3 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2023 15:01:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from mail.sbone.de (mail.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:4902:0:7404:2:1025]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31B3C8D4A172; Mon, 2 Oct 2023 15:01:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from content-filter.t4-02.sbone.de (content-filter.t4-02.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:4902:0:7404:2:2742]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 350DF2D029D1; Mon, 2 Oct 2023 15:01:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sbone.de Received: from mail.sbone.de ([IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:4902:0:7404:2:1025]) by content-filter.t4-02.sbone.de (content-filter.t4-02.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:4902:0:7404:2:2742]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id c_3wF5-1N81O; Mon, 2 Oct 2023 15:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from strong-aiccu0.sbone.de (strong-aiccu0.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:f491::2]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F30A92D029D2; Mon, 2 Oct 2023 15:01:36 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 15:01:35 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" To: Frog Lu cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org, pali.gabor@gmail.com Subject: Re: Still no support for BCM 43228? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <0s2or197-8p70-sqsn-59rn-34o5rn81p187@yvfgf.mnoonqbm.arg> References: X-OpenPGP-Key-Id: 0x14003F198FEFA3E77207EE8D2B58B8F83CCF1842 List-Id: Discussions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-wireless List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:195.201.0.0/16, country:DE]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Rzkgb5p54z4Cn3 On Mon, 2 Oct 2023, Frog Lu wrote: Hi, > Hi. This is my first post in this list. > > I searched for a lot of documents through the web and the FreeBSD forums > and help pages, but couldn't find any help on configuration for the > wireless card broadcom BCM 43228. I doubt anyone will work on that. Not sure if it even was supported in Broadcom's smac driver in Linux? > Tried to use both bwm and bwi but it didn't work (or could I get the > instructions wrong?). Then I found a page saying that my wifi card is not > supported in FreeBSD. > > I was wondering if it is still not supported and if it will some day. Or > the only solution is to install a USB wifi compatible dongle. > > The ethernet card is recognized ok. Could not test it yet, to check if it > will work at GiB or FE. > > I have an old Lenovo Thinkpad (T430U) laptop that I would like to use with > FreeBSD. If it still not supported, I will have to use the laptop with > other OS. Swap it for another supportted and known working card and use the Laptop? Otherwise https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox might be the best solution; not sure which drivers the wifibox-brcm package supports. Gabor? /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7