From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 22 02:57:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325F916A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:57:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E1E43D48 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:57:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from astrodog@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 70so1544858wra for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:57:37 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=iNECvWgRMCRAd3Rj6CwUWP5Uxh2kNyqqQJ2IzcUTe2o/SwgYXV1PKR3seu5zuKnAi8tLR81hCBd1W6CRcEpety7Yp+AzVunVMza4jjgYcvoVOGCWjK8XS1K1gTWpaQ4o/Ut16Vwhic916DAElaCNwHqzMGn0NvUfg3Wd61c4WfY= Received: by 10.54.23.69 with SMTP id 69mr834168wrw; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:57:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.40.69 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:57:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2fd864e050321185711297839@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:57:37 -0800 From: Astrodog To: Andrew Lankford In-Reply-To: <423F87EE.6000605@charter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <423F87EE.6000605@charter.net> cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom wireless NIC on R3000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Astrodog List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:57:38 -0000 On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:50:22 -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > > After getting ACPI working with Kim's hints on this list and waiting for > several useful commits to -STABLE, ACPI works and my parallel port along > with it. That leaves the onboard Wifi capability as the only thing I > can't use on FreeBSD. > > The realtek NIC has always worked fine, but I only recently got the > kernel to recognize the Broadcom wireless NIC. Using the 64-bit > ndisulator and a downloaded windows driver that was linked to on this > list a month or two ago, I can load the right modules and get the right > device probe messages, etc. The interface shows up in ifconfig too, > but it's always "no-carrier", no matter what settings I try, and the > little blue WiFi indicator light doesn't go on like it does in Windows. > > According to the manual, the antenna is turned on and off by the toggle > button right next to the indicator light. I take that to mean that > there's some sort of interface that physically controls signals to/from > the antenna, and that it's set to "off" by default in FreeBSD. Ergo no > connection to the antenna --> no carrier --> no joy. > > Has anyone tackled this problem before? Google hasn't given me any leads. > > Andrew Lankford > I suspect its trivial stuff if that's your stopping point. I can confirm that ath (Proxim card) and a wi (Netgear) work great. Perhaps in the files NDIS generates it mentions something, a tunable, perhaps?