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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:46:46 +0000
From:      Glen Barber <hexidigital@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: broadcom network card problem
Message-ID:  <20071116174646.GA2597@orion>
In-Reply-To: <689580000710211058u50f7e52fh13870bca1025c453@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <689580000710211058u50f7e52fh13870bca1025c453@mail.gmail.com>

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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



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