Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:30:09 +0100 From: Erik Gustafson <gustafson.erik@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)' Message-ID: <AANLkTi=kkY0LHOrknFXBsD6c0jDcgiTtPSeLtroTe3qU@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=s_Ysiaj8ZecV3hp8vY8Ky6_rjC6Yn7cUMYpT3@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=s_Ysiaj8ZecV3hp8vY8Ky6_rjC6Yn7cUMYpT3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:17 AM, b. f. <bf1783@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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 lapt= op >>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 t= he >>driver for linux). >> >>pciconf shows the following: >> >>[root at BlackDragon [~]# pciconf -lv | grep -A3 0x4315 >>none8 at pci0:8:0:0: =A0 =A0 =A0 class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x137c103c chip= =3D0x431514e4 >>rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00 >> =A0 =A0vendor =A0 =A0 =3D 'Broadcom Corporation' >> =A0 =A0device =A0 =A0 =3D 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)' >> =A0 =A0class =A0 =A0 =A0=3D 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. =A0Have 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. Don't know about amd64 but on i386 it works* with siba_bwn-driver. siba_bwn0@pci0:16:0:0: class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x137d103c chip=3D0x431514e= 4 rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00 vendor =3D 'Broadcom Corporation' device =3D 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)' class =3D network FreeBSD flapbsd 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 27 23:05:54 CEST 2010 root@flapbsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FLAPBSD i386 Id Refs Address Size Name 1 23 0xc0400000 811778 kernel 2 1 0xc0c12000 2d8f0 linux.ko 3 1 0xc0c40000 371d4 if_bwn.ko 4 2 0xc0c78000 a1dc siba_bwn.ko 5 1 0xc5ef4000 2c000 bwn_v4_lp_ucode15 6 1 0xc617c000 9000 i915.ko 7 1 0xc6185000 14000 drm.ko works*: I have problems reassociating after suspend to ram/hibernate This card worked through ndis on freebsd7/i386. /E
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