From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 23:12:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53EB916A41B for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:12:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hexidigital@gmail.com) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90A913C455 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:12:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hexidigital@gmail.com) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id s27so481025ele for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:12:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=nbG0l7EtXnIg9XVYxHbefv+lKJwxOumwzrxV1F+BjcE=; b=h9luXT/DdE6Bqhlp+Kuv3iG8KGBu6OPcXSWHrDFOSZjg3uu2WMyKc9MIxGnnltGISeiMJ1poMZ/tG+Z5Ur6mKPWFPRpCRqJ3UXBPUONO46aE0byRMFA9BrUZtuEt5R7GjD5puGvEEdB379yL5+oP3CDdKYfjkxTLnwUMGKSBbAY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=iHAEkBFMdnDP9VUvAM1UuvFV6Mk1veg5pLbeXYhM83nD4tQ0tzOROXBMRuZkas/JzBqjZTEO4jelb6oZZVeq3lcpUN9pNxKtK0gU4KfTlHmX6aRVBEn7aPit0ZjDDUi9EAcr04Wmzzg9cVZmKQXSi5HU7iXBKPUhHD1iTqgvXh0= Received: by 10.70.21.4 with SMTP id 4mr3910464wxu.1195253172757; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:46:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from hexidigital.org ( [24.229.62.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i35sm3911491wxd.2007.11.16.14.46.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:46:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gbarber by hexidigital.org with local (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1It5HC-0000go-BN for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:46:46 +0000 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:46:46 +0000 From: Glen Barber To: FreeBSD-Questions Message-ID: <20071116174646.GA2597@orion> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Questions References: <689580000710211058u50f7e52fh13870bca1025c453@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <689580000710211058u50f7e52fh13870bca1025c453@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Subject: Re: broadcom network card problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:12:16 -0000 svetimas alien said: > Hello, > I have lenovo v200 laptop with boardcom network card but my FreeBSD 6.2 does > not detect it. I tryed loading win drivers, with kldload, converted with > ndisgen but always get kernel panic. pciconf -lv shows this: > > none4@pci5:0:0 class=0x020000 card=0x3c2c17aa chip=0x1713144e4 rev=0x02 > hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom corporation' > class = network > subclass ethernet > > How to load this? What is the full name of the driver? bcmwl5_sys ? If so, copy it into the /boot/kernel/ directory, and load it with `kldload bcmwl5_sys` (or add bcmwl5_sys_load="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf). > > I also have bce and bge kompiled in my kernel. > When this module is loaded, you will get a ndis0 device, not bce or bge. -- Glen Barber