BCM4313...

[Beast13]

Hi there!

I would like to know if my WI-FI card :

09:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

at this time is supported ?

tia!

 

[asteriskRoss]

The FreeBSD hardware release notes is the place to look:

The bwn(4) driver supports Broadcom BCM43xx based wireless devices

Looking at the bwn(4) man page, the list of explicitly supported cards is:

Card Chip Bus Standard
Apple Airport Extreme BCM4318 PCI b/g
ASUS WL-138g BCM4318 PCI b/g
Buffalo WLI-CB-G54S BCM4318 CardBus b/g
Dell Wireless 1390 BCM4311 Mini PCI b/g
Dell Wireless 1470 BCM4318 Mini PCI b/g
Dell Truemobile 1400 BCM4309 Mini PCI b/g
HP Compaq 6715b BCM4312 PCI b/g
HP nx6125 BCM4319 PCI b/g
Linksys WPC54G Ver 3 BCM4318 CardBus b/g
Linksys WPC54GS Ver 2 BCM4318 CardBus b/g
US Robotics 5411 BCM4318 CardBus b/g

So, I see the BCM4313 chip isn't explictly listed, but there is a good chance it will work.

 

[woodsb02]

It doesn't look like it will work if you look at this old forums post: Thread 26616

You may have to try using the Windows drivers via ndis(4): Thread 36611

 

[Beast13]

Thanks for the feedback to both !

 

[Beast13]

Any advance?

 

[woodsb02]

Not yet, but suggest you follow the freebsd-wireless mailing list here:
https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless

Earlier this month there was some discussion about potentially adding support for this:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2015-July/005986.html

 

[brahmann]

Hi all, I really need support for bcm4313.
Earlier I used ndis(4) successfully, but today I updated from source (stable/10) - and now have 10.2-PRERELEASE, ndis(4) loaded, drivers loaded but interface not created, even ndis0 not created. This evening I'm without wifi....

So waiting a lot of bcm4313 supported... This card set up in a lot of laptops last 3-4 years! My laptop is 3 years old. The whole time I used ndis(4) with sometime kernel panics...

Card:

none3@pci0:3:0:0:  class=0x028000 card=0x060814e4 chip=0x472714e4 rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
  vendor  = 'Broadcom Corporation'
  device  = 'BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller'
  class  = network

cya, br

 

[beastDemian]

ndis(4) has a ton of problems with the BCM4313 chip. I used to get frequent panics (that were annoying the hell out of me) so I decided to wait until either I bought a laptop with a supported chip, or FreeBSD gains support for BCM4313. I still think the former is going to happen first, but maybe I'm proven wrong.

 

[brahmann]

So acording to https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2015-July/005986.html maybe will be support abit later, if not - will forget about wifi, because my laptop vendor write accepted wifi cards chips and vendor to bios

 

[brahmann]

Returned to releng/10.1 by rebuilding world and back with ndis(4) and wifi. So will wait support or later usbnano.

 

[Beast13]

nothin yet (six months later) ?

 

[Kalero]

Any new?

 

[Beast13]

^
ditto !

 

[Beast13]

no one ?

 

[drhowarddrfine]

Beast13 The place to ask this question would be where the developers hang out and that would be the mailing lists and IRC.