FreeBSD on Lenovo s10-2

everypot · #1 July 30th, 2009, 15:23

Help, please. I installed FreeBSD 7.2 on Lenovo s10-2. I followed the instruction from the handbook(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/...-wireless.html). But cannot get the internet work.

The netbook has a Broadcom BCM4312 wifi card. Some said that there was no freebsd driver for it (http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2009/05/b...committed.html).

ifconfig

Code:

o0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
       inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
       inet6 ::1 prefexlen 128
       inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000

and even the ethernet cable cannot bring up the internet--couldn't be worse

BTW: I tried to install FreeBSD 8.0 beta2 using an external CD/DVD drive. Everything went well until I chose the install media: From CD/DVD. It told me: No CD/DVD device is detected! That's strange because there was no problem with FB 7.2 installation using the same external cd/dvd drive.

xGhost · #2 July 31st, 2009, 12:43

Hi

You musst create a ndis device. If you have this you can use the wlan card over a wlan device (ifconfig wlan create wlandev ndis0).
You can this setup over rc.conf

I use the 8.0 current (BETA-2), but the Xorg dosn't work.
I have a black screen and a drmDropMaster error -1. I search
a soloution, but at the moment, I dosn't find it!

Have you run Xorg?

xGhost · #3 July 31st, 2009, 12:53

The new bwi driver in 8.0 dosn't work for me. I recompile the kernel
with "device bwi" but it dosn't work...

everypot · #4 July 31st, 2009, 19:14

Not yet.

I failed to create a ndis device...

Quote:

Originally Posted by xGhost

Hi

You musst create a ndis device. If you have this you can use the wlan card over a wlan device (ifconfig wlan create wlandev ndis0).
You can this setup over rc.conf

I use the 8.0 current (BETA-2), but the Xorg dosn't work.
I have a black screen and a drmDropMaster error -1. I search
a soloution, but at the moment, I dosn't find it!

Have you run Xorg?

xGhost · #5 July 31st, 2009, 19:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by everypot

Not yet.

I failed to create a ndis device...

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ork-setup.html

You use the bmcwl5.inf and bmcwl5.sys from original driver.
Use another directory such as the sys data include.
(I have also use the bmc43xx.cat).

greets

everypot · #6 August 2nd, 2009, 07:08

It does not work for me. I'm waiting for freebsd 8.0 release. It says that "802.11s (mesh11s project), to be completed by 8.0 BETA3 (Rui Paulo, Sam Leffler)". http://wiki.freebsd.org/8.0TODO

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rwatson@
May 16th, 2009, 12:55
FYI, this driver has now been merged to FreeBSD 8-CURRENT as of 3 May, 2009, so should appear in FreeBSD 8.0 later this year:

date: 2009/05/03 04:01:43; author: imp; state: Exp;
SVN rev 191762 on 2009-05-03 04:01:43Z by imp

Bring in Andrew Thompson's port of Sepherosa Ziehau's bwi driver for
Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets. This driver uses the v3 firmware that
needs to be fetched separately. A port will be committed to create
the bwi firmware module.

The driver matches the following chips: Broadcom BCM4301, BCM4307,
BCM4306, BCM4309, BCM4311, BCM4312, BCM4318, BCM4319

The driver works for 802.11b and 802.11g.

Limitations:
This doesn't support the 802.11a or 802.11n portion of radios.
Some BCM4306 and BCM4309 cards don't work with Channel 1, 2 or 3.
Documenation for this firmware is reverse engineered from
http://bcm.sipsolutions.net/
V4 of the firmware is needed for 11a or 11n support
http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/
Firmware needs to be fetched from a third party, port to be committed

# I've tested this with a BCM4319 mini-pci and a BCM4318 CardBus card, and
# not connected it to the build until the firmware port is committed.

Obtained from: DragonFlyBSD, //depot/projects/vap
Reviewed by: sam@, thompsa@

everypot · #7 October 13th, 2009, 20:12

I use the ndis driver on my lenovo s10-2, since bwi doesn't support BCM4315.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=2477&page=3

fbsduser · #8 October 14th, 2009, 16:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by xGhost

Hi

You musst create a ndis device. If you have this you can use the wlan card over a wlan device (ifconfig wlan create wlandev ndis0).
You can this setup over rc.conf

I use the 8.0 current (BETA-2), but the Xorg dosn't work.
I have a black screen and a drmDropMaster error -1. I search
a soloution, but at the moment, I dosn't find it!

Have you run Xorg?

The newest version of Xorg is AFAIK Linux-dependant (it depends on the Intel GEM module which is now part of the linux kernel), what you need is either XFree86 or an old Xorg release.

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