Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:11:52 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance <lawrance@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Cc: Sam Lawrance <lawrance@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Dell D620 + Dell Wireless 1490 (Broadcom BCM4310) can work with NDIS drivers Message-ID: <4E03B68F-8937-438F-9073-97C2B9221207@FreeBSD.org>
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Saw some chatter about Dell D620, here's a snippet which someone might find useful. I have a D620 with a Dell Wireless 1490 card, Broadcom BCM4310 card=0x00071028 chip=0x431214e4. I tried to use the NDIS drivers which came with it, however they caused a fatal trap due to some unimplemented NDIS functions - see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-July/ 027119.html for an example. This won't necessarily happen for everyone - it may depend on the version of driver you are using. Anyhow, I decided to implement the missing bits and started by writing stubs for the missing functions. The stubs did nothing except a printf. On recompiling and loading the driver I found that the missing functions have yet to be called, and wireless is working fine. I'm connecting to an AP using WPA-PSK. I haven't generated a patch yet. It's extremely simple, but I'll follow up with one shortly. Cheers Sam
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