Hello there.
I'm a new FreeBSD user but am enjoying everything about it so far. I have FreeBSD installed on a Compaq Presario CQ40 and as it is a laptop I wish to have wireless connectivity. The wireless network card is a Broadcom BCM4312. I have loaded the if_bwn.ko module and ifconfig has recognized a new interface. I then followed the manual and created the wlan0 interface and put it up. But ifconfig wlan0 scan prints nothing.
Furthermore there is a button above my keyboard that allows you to enable and disable the wireless card, now even though the new interface exists the light on the
aforementioned button is red, when running Arch Linux and even Windows on this machine the light would be blue if the network card was working. I have tried ndisgen but upon loading the kernel module it throws errors.
ifconfig output
pciconf output regarding network cards.
Any help getting my wireless card to would would be greatly appreciated. I apologize if I haven't posted any helpful information but I can't figure out what else to provide.
Thanks in advance.
Ki113d.
I'm a new FreeBSD user but am enjoying everything about it so far. I have FreeBSD installed on a Compaq Presario CQ40 and as it is a laptop I wish to have wireless connectivity. The wireless network card is a Broadcom BCM4312. I have loaded the if_bwn.ko module and ifconfig has recognized a new interface. I then followed the manual and created the wlan0 interface and put it up. But ifconfig wlan0 scan prints nothing.
Furthermore there is a button above my keyboard that allows you to enable and disable the wireless card, now even though the new interface exists the light on the
aforementioned button is red, when running Arch Linux and even Windows on this machine the light would be blue if the network card was working. I have tried ndisgen but upon loading the kernel module it throws errors.
ifconfig output
Code:
┌──[ki113d]─[~]
└──> ifconfig
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
ether 00:23:5a:b3:b3:ce
inet 10.10.10.35 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
bwn0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
ether 00:21:00:e5:63:23
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b
status: associated
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:21:00:e5:63:23
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier
ssid "" channel 1 (2412 MHz 11b)
country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 30 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60
bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 1 wme
bintval 0
pciconf output regarding network cards.
Code:
siba_bwn0@pci0:9:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x137d103c chip=0x431514e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY'
class = network
re0@pci0:10:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x30fe103c chip=0x813610ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
Any help getting my wireless card to would would be greatly appreciated. I apologize if I haven't posted any helpful information but I can't figure out what else to provide.
Thanks in advance.
Ki113d.