Broadcom Wireless chips support

I am currently using a Broadcom BCM4401 with FreeBSD 7

Code: 
pciconf -lv | grep BCM4
    device     = 'BCM4401 Broadcom NetLink 4401 10/100 Ethernet NIC'

I am using the builtin bfe driver. Worked the first time durring install. I even did a FTP install.

Code: 
bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Fast Ethernet> mem 0xef9fe000-0xef9fffff irq 17 at de                          vice 0.0 on pci3
 
I compiled the drivers into the kernel (that helped)

Code: 
device bwi
device wlan
device wlan_wep
device wlan_ccmp
device wlan_tkip
device wlan_amrr
device firmware

I put this in my /etc/rc.conf (it's in the documents)
Code: 
wlans_bwi0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="ssid MYNAME WPA DHCP"

still had to run dhclient wlan0

Loren Cannon
 
It's from ports
bwi-firmware-kmod I think.
make install clean
I believe it is version 3

Code: 
cd /usr/ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod
make install clean
 
Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller

Hello,

I have a new laptop Acer Aspire One D250 with the chip:

Code: 
none2@pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0xe01b105b chip=0x431514e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'BCM4310 USB Controller'
    class      = network

It seems that there is no driver in FreeBSD for this card (not even in HEAD) and the Windows 7 has the driver as BCMWL6.SYS which is unsupported NDIS API-6.

Any ideas what I could do? Any BCMWL5.SYS driver with support for this chip? Thanks in advance

Matthias <guru@unixarea.de>
 
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