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>---- Original Message ---- >From: freebsd-current-requ...@freebsd.org >To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org >Sent: Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 20:01 PM >Subject: [SPAM] freebsd-current Digest, Vol 367, Issue 6 > >Send freebsd-current mailing list submissions to > freebsd-current@freebsd.org > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > freebsd-current-requ...@freebsd.org > >You can reach the person managing the list at > freebsd-current-ow...@freebsd.org > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of freebsd-current digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi) (Matthias Apitz) > 2. Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi) (Matthias Apitz) > 3. Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi) (Matthias Apitz) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:23:48 +0200 >From: Matthias Apitz <g...@unixarea.de> >Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi) >To: Alberto Villa <avi...@freebsd.org> >Cc: Scot Hetzel <swhet...@gmail.com>, curr...@freebsd.org >Message-ID: <20101027172348.ga1...@tiny.sisis.de> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > >El d燰 Wednesday, October 27, 2010 a las 05:10:32PM +0000, Alberto Villa >escribi: > >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Scot Hetzel <swhet...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Where did you get your bcmwl5 driver? If you downloaded it from Acer, >> > it should work. If you downloaded it from anywhere else then this >> > might be why it didn't work for you. >> >> i don't remember, actually. anyway i thought the 5 was the driver >> version, i've just understood that it's the windows version :P >> i'll try the acer one, thanks for the suggestion! > >I could no get any bcmwl5 driver from Acer, only bcmwl6 version (which >is also installed in Win7 in my laptop). I have even asked Broadcom, but >they pointed me back to my dealer, to the reseller of the Acer laptop. >And asking them, they pointed to Acer. If someone has an bcmwl5 from >Acer, please contact me off-list. > > matthias >-- >Matthias Apitz >t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 >e <g...@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:06:10 +0200 >From: Matthias Apitz <g...@unixarea.de> >Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi) >To: Scot Hetzel <swhet...@gmail.com> >Cc: Alberto Villa <avi...@freebsd.org>, curr...@freebsd.org >Message-ID: <20101028060610.gb1...@current.sisis.de> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > >El d燰 Wednesday, October 27, 2010 a las 12:12:09PM -0500, Scot Hetzel escribi: > >> > Where did you get your bcmwl5 driver? If you downloaded it from Acer, >> > it should work. If you downloaded it from anywhere else then this >> > might be why it didn't work for you. >> > >> >> Just noticed that you didn't specify your computer manufacture. The >> above would only work for Matthias Apitz. >> >> You just need to download the driver from the manufacture of your computer. > >Why is this? Isn't it just the Wifi chip which matters? Could you sheet >a bit light on this? Thanks > > matthias >-- >Matthias Apitz >t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 >e <g...@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:32:55 +0200 >From: Matthias Apitz <g...@unixarea.de> >Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi) >To: Scot Hetzel <swhet...@gmail.com> >Cc: Alberto Villa <avi...@freebsd.org>, curr...@freebsd.org >Message-ID: <20101028063255.ga17...@current.sisis.de> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > >El d燰 Wednesday, October 27, 2010 a las 12:07:51PM -0500, Scot Hetzel escribi: > >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Alberto Villa <avi...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Paul B Mahol <one...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> NDISulator does not support 6.X NDIS API. You will need to find bcmwl5 >> >> driver. Note 5 vs 6 in driver name. >> >> Editing inf files will give you nothing. >> > >> > i've tried that driver, but apparently it doesn't support my card... >> > loading the .ko doesn't show anything... >> >> Where did you get your bcmwl5 driver? If you downloaded it from Acer, >> it should work. If you downloaded it from anywhere else then this >> might be why it didn't work for you. > >Following Scot's hint (thanks for this) I downloaded today morning the >WinXP x86 driver zip archive from www.Acer.com and built the bcmwl5_sys.ko with >ndisgen(8). The system panics on early boot stages when the kmod was >pulled in via loader.conf. > >If the system is up, you can kldload the module fine and the interface >ndis0 appears and even the card gets associated with the AP (i.e. >wpa_supplicant(8) must work fine). > >The ifconfig(8) shows the interface as: > >ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 > ether 90:4c:e5:00:06:ce > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g > status: associated > >and the Wifi indicator light of the laptop is green. > >But: > ># dhclient ndis0 >ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument >ndis0: not found > >and the same is with > ># ifconfig ndis0 192.168.2.200 > >All this is with a 8-CURRENT kernel/system as of May 2009. I will now build a >USB key from HEAD and will continue testing. > >Thanks > > matthias > >-- >Matthias Apitz >t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 >e <g...@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ > > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > >End of freebsd-current Digest, Vol 367, Issue 6 >*********************************************** _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
