broadcom (bcm4319) wireless card on amd64

[Scot Hetzel]

On 5/15/06, raf ponsaerts <raf.ponsaerts at med.kuleuven.be> wrote:
> 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?
> >
You need the Broadcom ndis 64bit driver from Windows XP/64.  The one
you used was a 32bit driver.

I have attached the 64bit ndis driver for the Broadcom Wireless. I
don't remember where I originally obtained it from.

Scot

NOTE: 80211g.zp is actually a .zip file, renamed extension to get
around gmail zip file protection.

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