Tried older Broadcom driver and it loaded successfully at startup. One more thing is left. Interface is not getting ip by DHCP automatically at startup. I have to type manually:wlan0
That's only command necessary and wireless is working.
Wireless entries in /etc/rc.conf:
wlans_ndis0="wlan0"...
I'm loading module via loader.conf because I want it to load automatically at startup and that's what is said if you follow that link I posted before:
Why shouldn't I follow handbook? Could be I understood incorrectly what was written in it...
How do I unload module otherwise? I couldn't...
I now switched to Ndisulator and configured system using this guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/config-network-setup.html.
When I load wireless module manually all works fine but when it's started automatically at boot adding line bcmwl5_sys_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf system...
Thanks for mentioning this useful command. I see some interesting lines now:
need multicast update callback
need multicast update callback
bwn_v4_lp_ucode15: could not load firmware image, error 2
bwn-open_v4_lp_ucode15: could not load firmware image, error 2
But there is also line in...
I did it now I guess. Added bwn_v4_ucode_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf.
Tried also manual load of module after reboot kldload bwn_v4_ucode and got message:
kldload: can't load bwn_v4_ucode: File exists
Which should mean that module is really loaded. Wifi is still not working, led turned off.
Hi folks,
Just started using Unix-type OS few days ago and now I have one problem. I can't get wireless device turning on (led is switched off) even though it's working on Windows. OS installed is PCBSD 8.1 so there should be no difference compared to FreeBSD. I have some kind of Dell mini...
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