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Old November 25th, 2008, 22:09
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I am currently using a Broadcom BCM4401 with FreeBSD 7

Code:
pciconf -lv | grep BCM4
    device     = 'BCM4401 Broadcom NetLink 4401 10/100 Ethernet NIC'
I am using the builtin bfe driver. Worked the first time durring install. I even did a FTP install.

Code:
bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Fast Ethernet> mem 0xef9fe000-0xef9fffff irq 17 at de                          vice 0.0 on pci3
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BCM4401 is not a Wireless Card.
Here we are talking generaly about BCM43XX family
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BCM4401 is not a Wireless Card.
Here we are talking generaly about BCM43XX family
Oops... missed the 43XX part!
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will this driver also work on 6.4?
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ok, i gave it a try and it does not work for 6.4.
will try 7-stable too.
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I compiled the drivers into the kernel (that helped)

Code:
device bwi
device wlan
device wlan_wep
device wlan_ccmp
device wlan_tkip
device wlan_amrr
device firmware
I put this in my /etc/rc.conf (it's in the documents)
Code:
wlans_bwi0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="ssid MYNAME WPA DHCP"
still had to run dhclient wlan0

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The ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod port needs to be installed before ifconfig(8) will work.(1)

1. bwi man page

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Old June 18th, 2010, 06:23
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Oh yeah, BCM4311
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Oh yeah, BCM4311
Is the firmware port v4? I had some trouble with v3 on my 4311 when I tried installing FreeBSD 8-Release on my laptop back in January.

I'd love to be able to use FreeBSD on it.
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It's from ports
bwi-firmware-kmod I think.
make install clean
I believe it is version 3

Code:
cd /usr/ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod
make install clean
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I think 8.1 is a different story.
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Code:
device bwi
device firmware
are the two lines you have to add. The rest already seem to be in the kernel configuration file.
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dhclient wlan0 sometimes has to be run more than once.
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PC-BSD doesn't seem to switch from ethernet to wireless without a reboot.
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fwiw, I'm on freebsd 8.0, with an 4318. Got it all working about 2 days ago.
Just boot, log in, and go.
Quite pleased
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Default Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller
Hello,

I have a new laptop Acer Aspire One D250 with the chip:

Code:
none2@pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0xe01b105b chip=0x431514e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'BCM4310 USB Controller'
    class      = network
It seems that there is no driver in FreeBSD for this card (not even in HEAD) and the Windows 7 has the driver as BCMWL6.SYS which is unsupported NDIS API-6.

Any ideas what I could do? Any BCMWL5.SYS driver with support for this chip? Thanks in advance

Matthias <guru@unixarea.de>
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