Sorry to say, no. Linux exposes a lot of things in their kernel that BSD is smart enough not to, the system calls are radically different and of course as Jeung said a long time ago, PHY-N isn't really there either to support the Broadcom stuff and that's why he piped off that ship.emc2 said:Can the FreeBSD kernel support Linux network driver interfaces and kernel APIs directly? (I'd be rather surprised if it can)
shokry said:Ok then, I was just holding the installation CD in my hand to install FreeBSD on my laptop, but I have the bcm4313 card :/ , that's what's gonna stop me from installing as I rely on wireless connection almost completely.
So sad.
emc2 said:I'm working on reverse-compiling the object file to see if that suspicion is correct. If it turns out to be, then it shouldn't be too hard to adapt the driver to work with FreeBSD, and possibly to use the knowledge gained in the other Broadcom drivers (bwn and bwi)
Page me when it's over ... somebody's GOTTA do this. I'm not the world's best 'nix coder, but maybe with a few more keystrokes at your back, we can get this done somehow. This is one important task that'll make a lot of people happy ...emc2 said:I'm in a semester-of-death right now. I will get back to all this when it blows over.
I'll be willing to do so if there's some contribution I can offer along with emc. At this time, I'd rather not noise up the list over there since there's a new maintainer for bwn and bwi seems to be chugging along. Currently I'm all tied up with 9beta and cups madness since I'm a one man band over here and am already doubleshifting my days as it is.avilla@ said:People, may I suggest you all to talk about this on freebsd-wireless@? That's a better place for trying to coordinate efforts on this.
nirnr00t said:+1. Have asus eee pc 1215N with broadcom 4313.
gurki said:Hey
Just wanted to let you know I got wireless working on my asus 1215N with ndis.
I downloaded Windows XP drivers for the broadcom chipsets and then ndis was working fine.
redw0lfx said:Do you have a Broadcom 4313 chip on your asus 1215N? I have been looking for XP drivers for that chip, but only found Windows 7 drivers. If you wouldn't mind, could you provide a link to where I can find them, or upload them somewhere for me?
Thanks.
gurki said:Hey
Just wanted to let you know I got wireless working on my asus 1215N with ndis.
I downloaded Windows XP drivers for the broadcom chipsets and then ndis was working fine.
On another note by using the work being done here http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU and the new acpi_call module found here http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=27010 I got full acceleration using the Intel card and good battery time by turning off the nvidia adapter.
Hope this can help you to get FreeBSD running on your asus 1215n
nirnr00t said:Probably you use http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=150712&postcount=5 ? Thanks for winxp drivers, but, as i now, ndis works only on -RELEASE, but develop of many desktop features (probably GEM) doing on -CURRENT. Its sad.
nirnr00t said:Thanks for winxp drivers, but, as i now, ndis works only on -RELEASE
wblock@ said:What makes you think that?
kldload ndis & kldload /path/to/generated/driver/module
ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ndis0
ifconfig wlan0 up scan
wpa_supplicant -D ndis -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
bwi0@pci0:5:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1355103c chip=0x431814e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller'
class = network
if_bwi_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"
wlans_bwi0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"
FreeBSD freea 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012
[email]root@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu[/email]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386