Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:29:55 -0800 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Nikolay Vernyayev <nikolay.vernyayev@gmail.com> Cc: Ted Lindgreen <ted@tednet.nl>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old story: BCM43xx ver.2 Message-ID: <47AE2963.9000907@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <209bd33f0802091331y525737f1j15735cdbe2608f05@mail.gmail.com> References: <200802090944.m199iO3W001888@omval.tednet.nl> <209bd33f0802091331y525737f1j15735cdbe2608f05@mail.gmail.com>
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Ask sephe about his bwi driver.
Sam
Nikolay Vernyayev wrote:
> Hi Ted,
>
> Thank you.
> I have done before ndis utilization for this, but... hmmm... It is not
> really what I wanted.
>
> Idea is to find/make kernel based driver/module (similar to related Linux
> project). This is part of requirements for one of my projects.
>
> BR,
> Nikolay Vernyayev
> I am blogging here:
>
> On Feb 9, 2008 4:44 AM, Ted Lindgreen <ted@tednet.nl> wrote:
>
>
>> [Quoting Nikolay Vernyayev, on Feb 9, 10:18, in "Old story: BCM43xx v
>> ..."]
>> ...
>>
>>> none0@pci0:6:0: class=0x028000 card=0x000617f9 chip=0x431814e4 rev=0x02
>>> hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>>> device = 'BCM43XX Broadcom 802.11b/g'
>>> class = network
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My 2-year old Acer 3623 laptop has a similar wireless interface:
>> ndis0@pci0:6:5:0: class=0x028000 card=0x03121468 chip=0x431814e4
>> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>> vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>> device = 'BCM43XX Broadcom 802.11b/g'
>> class = network
>>
>> The laptop runs FreeBSD-current since I bought it, and is weekly
>> updated. The Broadcom wireless card has run fine under ndis, on
>> FreeBSD 6, 7, and now 8.
>>
>> However, make sure that you use the right BCMWL5.SYS and BCMWL5.INF
>> files. I had first tried versions of these files downloaded from
>> various places without success. Using the files from the Windows
>> partition on the same laptop (in /mnt/dos/WINDOWS/Lan on my Acer),
>> it works flawlessly. Appearently there are subtile differences in
>> the versions of this card that are used in laptops of various
>> vendors.
>>
>> regards,
>> -- ted
>>
>>
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