Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:17:55 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)' Message-ID: <AANLkTi=s_Ysiaj8ZecV3hp8vY8Ky6_rjC6Yn7cUMYpT3@mail.gmail.com>
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Chris Brennan wrote: ... >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 at BlackDragon [~]# pciconf -lv | grep -A3 0x4315 >none8 at 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 at BlackDragon [~]# > >The laptop is an HP dv2845SE and it's running FreebSD64-8.1. Let me know if >I missed anything. I'm assuming that by "FreebSD64", you mean the amd64 version of FreeBSD. Have you tried using a recent version of the native bwn(4) driver, together with the net/bwn-firmware-kmod port, rather than ndis(4)? b.
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