Broadcom bcmwl5 NDIS driver and Dell D610

Colin Faber cfaber at ruckusmail.com
Wed Jun 21 01:38:24 UTC 2006


Hello Folks,

I'm having trouble getting my Dell D610 to recognize my Broadcom/Dell 
miniPCI b/g wireless card.

What I've done so far is as follows:

1) I copied the drivers that windows was using successfully from my 
windows slice to my freebsd slice.
2) I made sure that the .inf file was ascii, after that I generated 
bcmwl5_sys.ko with ndisgen.
3) I loaded the module generated, it loaded successfully.

At this point I expected to see a ndis0 device popup, however sadly this 
wasn't the case.

Running after running pciconf -lv I think I've successfully identified 
the miniPCI card as PCI:3:3:0 and the driver appears to see it, however 
that's it.

Below is the snippit of my system log after attaching the driver. Below 
that is the pciconf -lv output

pci0: driver added
pci1: driver added
pci2: driver added
pci3: driver added
found->    vendor=0x104c, dev=0x8038, revid=0x00
    bus=3, slot=1, func=5
    class=07-80-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=1
    cmdreg=0x0102, statreg=0x0210, cachelnsz=0 (dwords)
    lattimer=0x00 (0 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0 ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns)
    intpin=a, irq=19
    powerspec 2  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
pci3:1:5: reprobing on driver added
found->    vendor=0x14e4, dev=0x4318, revid=0x02
    bus=3, slot=3, func=0
    class=02-80-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0
    cmdreg=0x0106, statreg=0x0000, cachelnsz=0 (dwords)
    lattimer=0x40 (1920 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0 ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns)
    intpin=a, irq=17
pci3:3:0: reprobing on driver added
pci0: driver added
pci1: driver added
pci2: driver added
pci3: driver added
found->    vendor=0x104c, dev=0x8038, revid=0x00
    bus=3, slot=1, func=5
    class=07-80-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=1
    cmdreg=0x0102, statreg=0x0210, cachelnsz=0 (dwords)
    lattimer=0x00 (0 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0 ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns)
    intpin=a, irq=19
    powerspec 2  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
pci3:1:5: reprobing on driver added
found->    vendor=0x14e4, dev=0x4318, revid=0x02
    bus=3, slot=3, func=0
    class=02-80-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0
    cmdreg=0x0106, statreg=0x0000, cachelnsz=0 (dwords)
    lattimer=0x40 (1920 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0 ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns)
    intpin=a, irq=17
pci3:3:0: reprobing on driver added


Now the pciconf -lv output:

hostb0 at pci0:0:0:    class=0x060000 card=0x01821028 chip=0x25908086 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82915PM/GM/GMS, 82910GML Host Bridge'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = HOST-PCI
pcib1 at pci0:1:0:    class=0x060400 card=0x00000088 chip=0x25918086 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x01
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82915PM/GM PCI Express Graphics Port'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-PCI
pcib2 at pci0:28:0:    class=0x060400 card=0x00000040 chip=0x26608086 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x01
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW PCI Express Port 1'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-PCI
uhci0 at pci0:29:0:    class=0x0c0300 card=0x01821028 chip=0x26588086 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW USB UHCI Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
uhci1 at pci0:29:1:    class=0x0c0300 card=0x01821028 chip=0x26598086 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW USB UHCI Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
uhci2 at pci0:29:2:    class=0x0c0300 card=0x01821028 chip=0x265a8086 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW USB UHCI Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
uhci3 at pci0:29:3:    class=0x0c0300 card=0x01821028 chip=0x265b8086 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW USB UHCI Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
ehci0 at pci0:29:7:    class=0x0c0320 card=0x01821028 chip=0x265c8086 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW USB 2.0 EHCI Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
pcib3 at pci0:30:0:    class=0x060401 card=0x00000050 chip=0x24488086 
rev=0xd3 hdr=0x01
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801BAM/CAM/DBM (ICH2-M/3-M/4-M) Hub Interface to PCI 
Bridge'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-PCI
pcm0 at pci0:30:2:    class=0x040100 card=0x01821028 chip=0x266e8086 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW AC '97 Audio Controller'
    class    = multimedia
    subclass = audio
isab0 at pci0:31:0:    class=0x060100 card=0x01821028 chip=0x26418086 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FBM ICH6M LPC Interface Bridge'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-ISA
atapci0 at pci0:31:2:    class=0x010180 card=0x01821028 chip=0x26538086 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FBM ICH6M SATA Controller'
    class    = mass storage
    subclass = ATA
drm0 at pci1:0:0:    class=0x030000 card=0x20061028 chip=0x54601002 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
    device   = 'Mobility Radeon X300'
    class    = display
    subclass = VGA
bge0 at pci2:0:0:    class=0x020000 card=0x01821028 chip=0x167714e4 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device   = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet
cbb0 at pci3:1:0:    class=0x060700 card=0x01821028 chip=0x8036104c 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x02
    vendor   = 'Texas Instruments (TI)'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-CardBus
none0 at pci3:1:5:    class=0x078000 card=0x01821028 chip=0x8038104c 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Texas Instruments (TI)'
    device   = '01821028 GemCore based SmartCard container'
    class    = simple comms
none1 at pci3:3:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x00051028 chip=0x431814e4 
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    class    = network


Any advice would is welcome.  If I can get the wireless card working and 
resolve an ACPI video issue I have, I will have just about everything 
that I'm interested in, fully functional.

Thank you

-cf



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