Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:46:46 +0000 From: Glen Barber <hexidigital@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: broadcom network card problem Message-ID: <20071116174646.GA2597@orion> In-Reply-To: <689580000710211058u50f7e52fh13870bca1025c453@mail.gmail.com> References: <689580000710211058u50f7e52fh13870bca1025c453@mail.gmail.com>
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svetimas alien said: > Hello, > I have lenovo v200 laptop with boardcom network card but my FreeBSD 6.2 does > not detect it. I tryed loading win drivers, with kldload, converted with > ndisgen but always get kernel panic. pciconf -lv shows this: > > none4@pci5:0:0 class=0x020000 card=0x3c2c17aa chip=0x1713144e4 rev=0x02 > hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom corporation' > class = network > subclass ethernet > > How to load this? What is the full name of the driver? bcmwl5_sys ? If so, copy it into the /boot/kernel/ directory, and load it with `kldload bcmwl5_sys` (or add bcmwl5_sys_load="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf). > > I also have bce and bge kompiled in my kernel. > When this module is loaded, you will get a ndis0 device, not bce or bge. -- Glen Barber
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