Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 15:24:18 -0400 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)' Message-ID: <AANLkTi=5Bx4b8vhAP0hGOsoHxmGsMvD1D2Lbr=XDO0mO@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinHbbrpJWX9xKQt54L9rUXLtQ3s3fswUCncyR1w@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTinb9R8p5ZUAs0DRq3=gNBtBOXZfmb%2B3-62GKXES@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinHbbrpJWX9xKQt54L9rUXLtQ3s3fswUCncyR1w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/3/10, Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> wrote: > > I figured the general users list was a good place to start. I'm somewhat > new > > to FreeBSD still, I have one fbsd7.3 home server and it serves it's > purposes > > quite nicely. I decided to installed FreeBSD64 on my laptop. For the most > > part, things went very well. I got X/Gnome/OOo3 (for school) installed > and > > am trucking along quite nicely. My Hiccup as the subject suggests is > about > > my Wireless Card. I have been following the handbook ( > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/config-network-setup.html) on how to > use > > 64-bit Windows drivers coupled w/ ndisgen to get my wireless card > working. I > > got ndisgen to generate a kernel module but it immediately caused my > laptop > > to reboot when the kernel was loaded. This left me scratching my head. I > > think I might need firmware (I remember having to extract firmware from > the > > driver for linux). > > > > pciconf shows the following: > > > > [root@BlackDragon [~]# pciconf -lv | grep -A3 0x4315 > > none8@pci0:8:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x137c103c chip=0x431514e4 > > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > > device = 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)' > > class = network > > [root@BlackDragon [~]# > > > > The laptop is an HP dv2845SE and it's running FreebSD64-8.1. Let me know > if > > I missed anything. > > NDISulator support for amd64 is currently broken. > You can try http://gitorious.org/NDISulator but note that amd64 does > not work for me too. > > I did some googleing (is that even spelled right?) on this over the last few days and I saw posts about NDISulator being broken, but it wasn't in reference to AMD64. In fact the archived e-mail I read referenced FreeBSD5.x and I assumed 32-bit given the version number, I was also left w/ the assumption that NDISulator was new w/ that release of FreeBSD. Can anyone else shed some light on this subject (even enough light for a solution :D) > > > > Did you know... > > > > If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, > > > > but what's worse is when you play it forward.... > > ...it installs Windows 2000 > > > > -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org > > <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>; > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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