Wireless set up for Macbook on FreeBSD 10.1

[timmy_p]

Hi,
I'm trying to get my wireless connection setup on my MacBook.

The wireless driver should be bwi(4) -- Broadcom BCM43xx
And following this bwi(4)

I put

if_bwi_load="YES"

in /boot/loader.conf

And added to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

network={
 ssid=network
 psk=mypasswd
}

I also added to /etc/rc.conf

wlans_bwi="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"

But now I'm a bit stuck, it still doesn't seem to work. If I type ifconfig I just get something called lo0, I'm not sure if that is relevant, but I thought I'd see something with bwi in?

Any help greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

[SirDice]

Did you install this too?

This driver requires firmware to be loaded	before it will work.  The
     ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod port needs to be installed before ifconfig(8)
     will work.

From bwi(4).

 

[timmy_p]

Hey!
I went to /usr/ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod, but when I tried to run make install clean, it said it needed kernel source files in /usr/src.

So I looked in the Makefile and went to

http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/

Looking at the Makefile I think I am meant to put wl_apsta-$(FWVERSION).0.o, so I found wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o, that must be it right? Anyway, I put in /usr/src but I get the same message.

Is the .o file the kernel file?

 

[junovitch@]

You need the FreeBSD kernel sources.
fetch http://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/10.1-RELEASE/src.txz
tar xvJf src.txz -C /

You can also get it from SVN. This will be the releng/10.1 branch which includes security patches as well. I don't believe that it should make a difference for the purposes of building a wireless driver.
svnlite co https://svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org/base/releng/10.1/ /usr/src

 

[timmy_p]

Thanks, I was able to download all the files and got pkg-static and the firmware installed.