Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:17:21 +0100 From: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> To: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)' Message-ID: <AANLkTinHbbrpJWX9xKQt54L9rUXLtQ3s3fswUCncyR1w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinb9R8p5ZUAs0DRq3=gNBtBOXZfmb%2B3-62GKXES@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTinb9R8p5ZUAs0DRq3=gNBtBOXZfmb%2B3-62GKXES@mail.gmail.com>
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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. > > 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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