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Hello everybody, how are you doing,
I am trying to get my laptops internal Broadcom BCM4331 wireless working. It looks to me like the Broadcom drivers in FreeBSD don't support networking for this one, so I am trying to get it up with ndis. (I found an old stackexchange question were somebody said they got a 4331 working on FreeBSD with ndis, but sadly they didn't say how) I extracted a BroadcomWirelessWin7x64.exe file, which contains a driver, which I know works with Windows. It contains these files: Code:
bcm43xx64.cat bcmihvui64.dll bcmwl6.inf bcmwlcoi.dll bcmihvsrv64.dll bcmihvui.dll bcmwl6.sys DPInst.exe bcmihvsrv.dll bcmwl664.sys bcmwlcoi64.dll DPInst.xml Code:
ndisgen bcmwl6.inf bcmwl6.sys Code:
ndiscvt: line 3095: VID_02d0&PID_4319&FN_1\LocationPaths\*: syntax error. CONVERSION FAILED Code:
[BCM43XNGSD.AddReg] HKLM,SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceOverrides\SD#VID_02d0&PID_4319&FN_1\LocationPaths\*,Removable,0x00010001,0x0 (It asks if I want to include additional firmware. Do you think any of the files listed above could contain that?) I added bcmwl6_sys_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf. Now if I do ifconfig there still is no bwn0 (same as before) or a ndis0 device listed. What am I missing? kldstat lists the bcmwl6_sys.ko file, so it is loaded, right? On the dmesg the 4331 is still listed as bwn_pci0: . Does this mean it is attached with the bwn driver, and therefore unavailable for ndis. How would I remedy that? |
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How about a hardware solution?
I had a Broadcom wireless chip in my laptop but I replaced it with a Ralink chip... Check out the lyrics to the OpenBSD 3.7 release: 3.7 The Wizard of OS
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