Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-11-22 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 11/22/10, Alberto Villa avi...@freebsd.org wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2010 10:57:34 Paul B Mahol wrote: Please use ndis5 branch. master branch is in heavy development. CURRENT branch just blindly (and badly) track code on FreeBSD CURRENT. ok. unfortunately in this test i made an

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-11-22 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 11/22/10, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/22/10, Alberto Villa avi...@freebsd.org wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2010 10:57:34 Paul B Mahol wrote: Please use ndis5 branch. master branch is in heavy development. CURRENT branch just blindly (and badly) track code on FreeBSD

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-11-21 Thread Alberto Villa
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 10:57:34 Paul B Mahol wrote: Please use ndis5 branch. master branch is in heavy development. CURRENT branch just blindly (and badly) track code on FreeBSD CURRENT. ok. unfortunately in this test i made an error and just saw that... `-- git status # On branch ndis5

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-11-17 Thread Alberto Villa
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: Feel free to test code at: gitorious.org/NDISulator github.com/richardpl/NDISulator The code is developed on CURRENT. But with small changes it can be compiled on STABLE too. thanks! i've applied a checkout of last night

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-11-17 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 11/17/10, Alberto Villa avi...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: Feel free to test code at: gitorious.org/NDISulator github.com/richardpl/NDISulator The code is developed on CURRENT. But with small changes it can be compiled on

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-11-15 Thread Alberto Villa
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: Currently amd64 is broken with some/most drivers. Drivers appears to use fpu registers. I dunno how it ever worked, probably original developer(s) never encountered drivers which use fpu registers. I will probably fix

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-11-15 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 11/15/10, Alberto Villa avi...@freebsd.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: Currently amd64 is broken with some/most drivers. Drivers appears to use fpu registers. I dunno how it ever worked, probably original developer(s) never encountered

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-29 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, October 28, 2010 a las 12:07:10PM +, Paul B Mahol escribió: # 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. On 9/8 CURRENT you create wlanX with

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-29 Thread Scot Hetzel
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I booted the 8-CURRENT this morning, loaded the module with kldload(8) and wlan0 came up by its own (I did not realized this yesterday). I have in rc.conf: wlans_ndis0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=WPA DHCP wpa_supplicant(8)

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-29 Thread Paul B Mahol
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Scot Hetzel swhet...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I booted the 8-CURRENT this morning, loaded the module with kldload(8) and wlan0 came up by its own (I did not realized this yesterday). I have in

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-29 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, October 29, 2010 a las 07:07:18AM +, Paul B Mahol escribió: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Scot Hetzel swhet...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I booted the 8-CURRENT this morning, loaded the module with

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, October 27, 2010 a las 12:12:09PM -0500, Scot Hetzel escribió: 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

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, October 27, 2010 a las 12:07:51PM -0500, Scot Hetzel escribió: 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

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-28 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/28/10, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El dia Wednesday, October 27, 2010 a las 12:07:51PM -0500, Scot Hetzel escribio: 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

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, October 28, 2010 a las 12:07:10PM +, Paul B Mahol escribió: # 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

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-28 Thread Scot Hetzel
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Wednesday, October 27, 2010 a las 12:12:09PM -0500, Scot Hetzel escribió: 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

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-28 Thread Alberto Villa
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Scot Hetzel swhet...@gmail.com wrote: You just need to download the driver from the manufacture of your computer. i downloaded some from acer and dell, until i found one from hp (actually, more than one -

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-28 Thread Alberto Villa
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Scot Hetzel swhet...@gmail.com wrote: When you get the Windows NDIS driver from the computer manufacture, you are ensured that your card is supported by that version of the driver.  If you download the Windows NDIS driver from another source, that driver may

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-27 Thread Alberto Villa
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: i've tried ndis without success... Sharing you experience would help (if you are not on amd64). i'm on i386 at the moment, but i'll switch to amd64 as soon as i decide what to do (keep freebsd natively or virtualize it under

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-27 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/27/10, Alberto Villa avi...@freebsd.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: i've tried ndis without success... Sharing you experience would help (if you are not on amd64). i'm on i386 at the moment, but i'll switch to amd64 as soon as i decide

Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-27 Thread Alberto Villa
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

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-27 Thread Scot Hetzel
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Scot Hetzel swhet...@gmail.com wrote: 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.

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-27 Thread Scot Hetzel
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.

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, October 27, 2010 a las 05:10:32PM +, Alberto Villa escribió: 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

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-26 Thread Alberto Villa
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I have a new laptop Acer Aspire One D250 and pulled out HEAD from SVN today morning. As far as I can see in sys/dev/bwi and sys/dev/bwn the above chip is still not supported. I am wrong? i have the same problem with a

Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-26 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/26/10, Alberto Villa avi...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I have a new laptop Acer Aspire One D250 and pulled out HEAD from SVN today morning. As far as I can see in sys/dev/bwi and sys/dev/bwn the above chip is still not

Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

2010-10-25 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I have a new laptop Acer Aspire One D250 and pulled out HEAD from SVN today morning. As far as I can see in sys/dev/bwi and sys/dev/bwn the above chip is still not supported. I am wrong? Any other idea how to get Wifi working on this mini laptop? Thanks in advance matthias --