Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 16:31:12 -0500 From: "Nikolay Vernyayev" <nikolay.vernyayev@gmail.com> To: "Ted Lindgreen" <ted@tednet.nl> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old story: BCM43xx ver.2 Message-ID: <209bd33f0802091331y525737f1j15735cdbe2608f05@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200802090944.m199iO3W001888@omval.tednet.nl> References: <200802090944.m199iO3W001888@omval.tednet.nl>
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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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