bcm4311

[steveo314]

-bcm4311

has anyone got this card to work? or do they know of a forum post that will get it to work on freebsd? i am a *bsd newb and i would like to run it on my lappy but i have to have the wifi. :\

 

[vivek]

it works with bwi driver, which is not ported on FreeBSD,yet. It is part of OpenBSD or DragonFlyBSD. You need to use Windows XP driver with via ndisgen(8). See PC-BSD thread for more info:

http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=12422
http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=12738

 

[paradox]

it works with bwi driver, which is not ported on FreeBSD,

are you sure?

 

[elliotw2]

Is it known that there's a official driver put out by Broadcom that needs some porting to be able to use on BSD?

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

 

[ultraquix]

Try compiling the drivers into the kernel

It seems to be a good start.

to get an idea of which ones to compile in and how to configure everything, use these sources

man bwi

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

to get an idea of how to compile a kernel

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html

Hint: You may have to run dhclient ("dhclient wlan0" on my system)
Hint: You may have to run dhclient as root

Feel free to ask questions, as I am not at that computer at this moment.

Loren Cannon

 

[wblock@]

it works with bwi driver, which is not ported on FreeBSD,yet.

Maybe a WIP, but it's been in there a while: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/stable/8/sys/dev/bwi/

 

[wblock@]

-bcm4311

has anyone got this card to work? or do they know of a forum post that will get it to work on freebsd? i am a *bsd newb and i would like to run it on my lappy but i have to have the wifi. :\

The bwi driver might support it, although it doesn't list a 4311. You could better identify exactly what you have with # pciconf -lv | grep -i -B1 -A2 broadcom

The first line with the hex combinations has the vendor and product codes.