Hi.
I got (in June this year) a brand new HP Pavilion G4-1065la with Ubuntu 11.04 64bits preloaded (it was a limited edition of Linux based Pavilion G4 laptops for Latin-American countries, that came with Linux and without the Windows tax, making them cheap. This edition was never advertised on HP's website, I found out about it because the laptop I bought at the local computer store was suspiciously cheap, and when I unpacked it I got the surprise when I found a "powered by Ubuntu" sticker instead of the usual "Windows" one, and an Ubuntu LiveDVD included, and obviously one big partition with Ubuntu installed on it plus the swap partition).
Of course everything works OOTB in Ubuntu. I got FreeBSD 9.0 rc3 x86 installed next to ubuntu on this box. But the wireless card (MS-approved, HP-certified, Broadcom BCM4313 abgn/ BCM 2070 BT 2.1+EDR piece of SHIT card) just won't work.
Tried ndisgen using this XP driver to get the wireless card going. Used the bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys (don't know if it contains a firmware file, if it does tell me which one is it) files and then followed these steps, and put this wpa_supplicant.conf file in /etc.
But when I reboot it gets stuck in "ndis. NDIS API 5.1". If I remove all the references to ndis it boots but as soon as I kldload the bcmwl5_sys driver I get a kernel panic (I attached the crash dump files in an archive).
I would like to know if it is a known problem in the FreeBSD 9.0rc3 version of ndisulator? Or is there any other driver that will work better (is there a Win98 driver for that card, because the PCBSD guys say that with the Win98 driver it works, yet I tried to find a Win98 driver but found nothing).
TIA.
I got (in June this year) a brand new HP Pavilion G4-1065la with Ubuntu 11.04 64bits preloaded (it was a limited edition of Linux based Pavilion G4 laptops for Latin-American countries, that came with Linux and without the Windows tax, making them cheap. This edition was never advertised on HP's website, I found out about it because the laptop I bought at the local computer store was suspiciously cheap, and when I unpacked it I got the surprise when I found a "powered by Ubuntu" sticker instead of the usual "Windows" one, and an Ubuntu LiveDVD included, and obviously one big partition with Ubuntu installed on it plus the swap partition).
Of course everything works OOTB in Ubuntu. I got FreeBSD 9.0 rc3 x86 installed next to ubuntu on this box. But the wireless card (MS-approved, HP-certified, Broadcom BCM4313 abgn/ BCM 2070 BT 2.1+EDR piece of SHIT card) just won't work.
Tried ndisgen using this XP driver to get the wireless card going. Used the bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys (don't know if it contains a firmware file, if it does tell me which one is it) files and then followed these steps, and put this wpa_supplicant.conf file in /etc.
But when I reboot it gets stuck in "ndis. NDIS API 5.1". If I remove all the references to ndis it boots but as soon as I kldload the bcmwl5_sys driver I get a kernel panic (I attached the crash dump files in an archive).
I would like to know if it is a known problem in the FreeBSD 9.0rc3 version of ndisulator? Or is there any other driver that will work better (is there a Win98 driver for that card, because the PCBSD guys say that with the Win98 driver it works, yet I tried to find a Win98 driver but found nothing).
TIA.