broadcom (bcm4319) wireless card on amd64

[raf ponsaerts]

I've already posted this message to "FreeBSD-Questions", about 2 days
ago. I got no response ... maybe someone on this list has any idea...
My appologies for posting twice and being impatient.

> hi all,
> 
> I have a new laptop which runs on FreeBSD6.1beta-amd64 (Turion64
> ML-34).  
> 
> The only problem I have is getting the wireless interface up.
> 
> none3 at pci6:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1359103c chip=0x431914e4
> rev=0x02
> hdr=0x00    
> vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> class    = network
> 
> It seems to me I need a driver which supports bcm4319.
> I read about the unwillingness of broadcom to support the development
> of
> a native FreeBSD-driver. 
> 
> I am aware of the "Evil project" and the "ndisgen" tool. So, I used
> WinXP drivers 
> (bcmwl5.inf, bcmwl5.sys) to build a module, which loads without any
> comment.
> 
> However, ifconfig does not show the wireless interface ...
> 
> When I take a look at the ndiswrapper-list, I see that such cards work
> on linux-amd64. 
> 
> Does anyone know a way to get past this problem?
> Does bcmwl5.inf needs some tweaking?
> 
> 
> raf 
> 
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