Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:57:37 -0800 From: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> To: Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom wireless NIC on R3000 Message-ID: <2fd864e050321185711297839@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <423F87EE.6000605@charter.net> References: <423F87EE.6000605@charter.net>
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On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:50:22 -0500, Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net> 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?
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