Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:01:18 -0600 From: Colin Faber <cfaber@ruckusmail.com> To: "Mark A-J. Raught" <mraught@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom bcmwl5 NDIS driver and Dell D610 Message-ID: <44A012DE.8060301@ruckusmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4499FC84.5090205@acm.org> References: <4498A387.9040303@ruckusmail.com> <4499FC84.5090205@acm.org>
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Hi Mark, After messing around with it for a while I found a driver which did work. I was able to successfully get ndis0 to appear and after hitting the Fn+F2 button and starting ndis_events I could see some access points. The problem I'm having now is that when I do connect to an access point (with wpa_supplicant -D ndis -i ndis0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf) DHCP doesn't appear to work right. What I'm seeing is that the DHCP requests issued by the AP it self are ignored, however if I allow DHCP requests through the AP from say my cable modem, those are accepted and collected. This problem does not exist if I establish a link to the AP with my ural USB card. Also, a quick note on the Fn+F2 thing. Though the LED which indicates wireless card broadcast status does not turn on and stays off, It does seem to switch the mode from off to on. -cf Mark A-J. Raught wrote: >> <snip old text> > > I am currently running linux on my laptop with the broadcom card in > it, but I had a couple problems when I first set it up in FreeBSD. > Here are some tips I can give, hopefully they'll help. First I had 2 > inf files available and I needed to use the ascii one (bcmwl5a.inf) > and the sys file (bcmwl5.sys) with the other file (bcmwl5.inf) it > appeared to work, but no love. This was about a year ago, so it may > not matter now. > > The other main thing is to make sure your wireless is physically on. > On my laptop I need to hold the Fn button and hit F2. That turns the > wireless on and off. However, the first time I needed to go into the > BIOS and set it to ON instead of Last Used (or LAST STATE, or > somesuch) that leaves it in the last state it was in. After it started > once, I could then change the BIOS back and it worked properly after > that. > > Finally, make sure you are following the correct directions, the last > time I needed to use NDIS I set it all up and it seemed to be correct, > but you needed to use some wizard instead of the "classic" way. This > also may have changed since then (again about a year ago). > > -mark > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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