Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:14:19 -0400 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)' Message-ID: <AANLkTinb9R8p5ZUAs0DRq3=gNBtBOXZfmb%2B3-62GKXES@mail.gmail.com>
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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. 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>;
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