FreeBSD on Lenovo s10-2

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Help, please. I installed FreeBSD 7.2 on Lenovo s10-2. I followed the instruction from the handbook(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html). But cannot get the internet work.

The netbook has a Broadcom BCM4312 wifi card. Some said that there was no freebsd driver for it (http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2009/05/broadcom-bcm43xx-support-bwi-committed.html).

ifconfig
Code: 
o0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
       inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
       inet6 ::1 prefexlen 128
       inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000

and even the ethernet cable cannot bring up the internet--couldn't be worse :(

BTW: I tried to install FreeBSD 8.0 beta2 using an external CD/DVD drive. Everything went well until I chose the install media: From CD/DVD. It told me: No CD/DVD device is detected! That's strange because there was no problem with FB 7.2 installation using the same external cd/dvd drive.
 
Hi

You musst create a ndis device. If you have this you can use the wlan card over a wlan device (ifconfig wlan create wlandev ndis0).
You can this setup over rc.conf

I use the 8.0 current (BETA-2), but the Xorg dosn't work.
I have a black screen and a drmDropMaster error -1. I search
a soloution, but at the moment, I dosn't find it!

Have you run Xorg?
 
Not yet.

I failed to create a ndis device...

xGhost said:
Hi

You musst create a ndis device. If you have this you can use the wlan card over a wlan device (ifconfig wlan create wlandev ndis0).
You can this setup over rc.conf

I use the 8.0 current (BETA-2), but the Xorg dosn't work.
I have a black screen and a drmDropMaster error -1. I search
a soloution, but at the moment, I dosn't find it!

Have you run Xorg?
Click to expand...
 
It does not work for me. I'm waiting for freebsd 8.0 release. It says that "802.11s (mesh11s project), to be completed by 8.0 BETA3 (Rui Paulo, Sam Leffler)". http://wiki.freebsd.org/8.0TODO

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rwatson@
May 16th, 2009, 12:55
FYI, this driver has now been merged to FreeBSD 8-CURRENT as of 3 May, 2009, so should appear in FreeBSD 8.0 later this year:

date: 2009/05/03 04:01:43; author: imp; state: Exp;
SVN rev 191762 on 2009-05-03 04:01:43Z by imp

Bring in Andrew Thompson's port of Sepherosa Ziehau's bwi driver for
Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets. This driver uses the v3 firmware that
needs to be fetched separately. A port will be committed to create
the bwi firmware module.

The driver matches the following chips: Broadcom BCM4301, BCM4307,
BCM4306, BCM4309, BCM4311, BCM4312, BCM4318, BCM4319

The driver works for 802.11b and 802.11g.

Limitations:
This doesn't support the 802.11a or 802.11n portion of radios.
Some BCM4306 and BCM4309 cards don't work with Channel 1, 2 or 3.
Documenation for this firmware is reverse engineered from
http://bcm.sipsolutions.net/
V4 of the firmware is needed for 11a or 11n support
http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/
Firmware needs to be fetched from a third party, port to be committed

# I've tested this with a BCM4319 mini-pci and a BCM4318 CardBus card, and
# not connected it to the build until the firmware port is committed.

Obtained from: DragonFlyBSD, //depot/projects/vap
Reviewed by: sam@, thompsa@
 
xGhost said:
Hi

You musst create a ndis device. If you have this you can use the wlan card over a wlan device (ifconfig wlan create wlandev ndis0).
You can this setup over rc.conf

I use the 8.0 current (BETA-2), but the Xorg dosn't work.
I have a black screen and a drmDropMaster error -1. I search
a soloution, but at the moment, I dosn't find it!

Have you run Xorg?
Click to expand...

The newest version of Xorg is AFAIK Linux-dependant (it depends on the Intel GEM module which is now part of the linux kernel), what you need is either XFree86 or an old Xorg release.
 
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