Wireless problem with (BCM43006)

[Fabian Keil]

Devnore <devnore at burken.nu> wrote:

> Fabian Keil wrote:
> 
> >Devnore <devnore at burken.nu> wrote:
> >
> >>I have a problem with my Wireless card in Dell Inspiron 1150 Laptop
> >>The card is a Truemobile 1300 (BCM4306)

> >Which version? Did you use ndisgen?

> uname -a
> FreeBSD slapis 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri Aug 26 13:37:08 
> CEST 2005 root at slapis:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SLAPIS i386
> 
> and i used ndiscvt
>     cd /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis
>     ndiscvt -i bcmwl5.inf.ascii -s bcmwl5.sys -o dis_driver_data.h
>     make && make install
> 
> all this worked with no errors.
> 
> the "Error occurs when i load it"
>     kldload -v if_ndis
>      Loaded if_ndis, id=10
> 
> Here i would have expected the module to hook up to the card so to speak
> 
>     ifconfig ndis0
>      ifconfig: interface ndis0 does not exist

The way to build ndis has been changed.

if_ndis.ko no longer contains the firmware binary.
It now is in an additional kernel module.

Run ndisgen and follow the instructions to build it.
After loading the new module, you should be able to see your card.

Fabian
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