FBSD & Broadcom BCM94306

[Scott Lambert]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 03:00:38PM -0400, Aaron Walker wrote:
> I installed FreeBSD (5.2.1) on a laptop for the first time yesterday and
> so far everything has worked flawlessly.
> 
> I have a HP Pavilion ze4630us that has a NatSemi 10/100 NIC as well as a
> Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g chip.  I've checked out the Hardware Notes for
> 5.2.1 and not suprisingly (since there isn't even a native linux driver
> yet) it wasn't on the list.  I am able to get the chip working under
> Linux via ndiswrapper which basically loads the windows driver for it.  

I have a Compaq 2195 which is similar to your HP.

The FreeBSD NDIS driver, aka "Project Evil", works well.  
http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/laptop/Presario_2195US/5/

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
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