Hi,
I recently attempted to put 9-CURRENT on a Macbook Pro (5.1 iteration), which features the Broadcom Airport Extreme WiFi chipset (reported by dmesg as BCM2045B2), but I have not been able to get it to work. The methods I have tried:
1. bwi. After following instructions at bwi(4) (including install net/bwi-firmware-kmod), I am able to load the kernel module using kldload (/boot/loader.conf etc), but the device still does not show up in ifconfig.
2. bwn. Same method as above. Grasping at straws, this caused the laptop to cease booting. Removed with fixit mode from a livecd.
3. NDIS. After using ndisgen, I was able to process the .inf and .sys files of a driver and produce a new driver for FreeBSD, and after loading the NDIS kernel driver, still the device was not available in ifconfig.
Does anyone know of a repeatable process that reliably produces a working WiFi connection on these laptops? I am aware that the wiki has a Macbook page, but it does not address WiFi at all.
Archlinux is able to support this chip with the broadcom-wl package.
Thanks
brad
I recently attempted to put 9-CURRENT on a Macbook Pro (5.1 iteration), which features the Broadcom Airport Extreme WiFi chipset (reported by dmesg as BCM2045B2), but I have not been able to get it to work. The methods I have tried:
1. bwi. After following instructions at bwi(4) (including install net/bwi-firmware-kmod), I am able to load the kernel module using kldload (/boot/loader.conf etc), but the device still does not show up in ifconfig.
2. bwn. Same method as above. Grasping at straws, this caused the laptop to cease booting. Removed with fixit mode from a livecd.
3. NDIS. After using ndisgen, I was able to process the .inf and .sys files of a driver and produce a new driver for FreeBSD, and after loading the NDIS kernel driver, still the device was not available in ifconfig.
Does anyone know of a repeatable process that reliably produces a working WiFi connection on these laptops? I am aware that the wiki has a Macbook page, but it does not address WiFi at all.
Archlinux is able to support this chip with the broadcom-wl package.
Thanks
brad