I have read the man page as well as several posts regarding the installation of the drivers for the Broadcom Wireless mini pci card(BCM 4309).
I believe I installed the firmware via the ports collection which the man page says is required, found at
/usr/ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod
as I now have several files like:
/usr/src/sys/dev/bwi/if_bwi.c
I am not sure what I have missed but I can see that the card is identified at start time, but a driver is not associated to it.(as shown below)
Is there a clearly written resource laying out the steps required to get the drivers installed correctly.
Or does anyone have any suggested diagnostics I can do to get a clearer picture of where I messed this up at?
My apologies if I am missing something obvious as this is my first experience with freeBSD.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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I believe I installed the firmware via the ports collection which the man page says is required, found at
/usr/ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod
as I now have several files like:
/usr/src/sys/dev/bwi/if_bwi.c
I am not sure what I have missed but I can see that the card is identified at start time, but a driver is not associated to it.(as shown below)
Is there a clearly written resource laying out the steps required to get the drivers installed correctly.
Or does anyone have any suggested diagnostics I can do to get a clearer picture of where I messed this up at?
My apologies if I am missing something obvious as this is my first experience with freeBSD.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Code:
$ uname -a
FreeBSD mob-ss1771 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 [email]root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu[/email]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
$ pciconf -lcvb
none2@pci0:2:3:0: class=0x028000 card=0x00011028 chip=0x432414e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = '802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (BCM4309)'
class = network
bar [10] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xfaff6000, size 8192, enabled
cap 01[40] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D1 D2 D3 current D0
$ pkg_info | grep bwi
bwi-firmware-kmod-3.130.20 Broadcom AirForce IEEE 802.11 Firmware Kernel Module
$ pkg_info | grep cutter
b43-fwcutter-011 Extracts firmware for Broadcom Wireless adapters