Broadcom wireless NIC on R3000

[Astrodog]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:50:22 -0500, Andrew Lankford
<lankfordandrew at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> After getting ACPI working with Kim's hints on this list and waiting for
> several useful commits to -STABLE, ACPI works and my parallel port along
> with it.  That leaves the onboard Wifi capability as the only thing I
> can't use on FreeBSD.
> 
> The realtek NIC has always worked fine, but I only recently got the
> kernel to recognize the Broadcom wireless NIC.  Using the 64-bit
> ndisulator and a downloaded windows driver that was linked to on this
> list a month or two ago, I can load the right modules and get the right
> device probe messages, etc.   The interface shows up in ifconfig too,
> but it's always "no-carrier", no matter what settings I try, and the
> little blue WiFi indicator light doesn't go on like it does in Windows.
> 
> According to the manual, the antenna is turned on and off by the toggle
> button right next to the indicator light.  I take that to mean that
> there's some sort of interface that physically controls signals to/from
> the antenna, and that it's set to "off" by default in FreeBSD.  Ergo no
> connection to the antenna --> no carrier --> no joy.
> 
> Has anyone tackled this problem before?  Google hasn't given me any leads.
> 
> Andrew Lankford
> 

I suspect its trivial stuff if that's your stopping point. I can
confirm that ath (Proxim card) and a wi (Netgear) work great. Perhaps
in the files NDIS generates it mentions something, a tunable, perhaps?