Broadcom bcmwl5 NDIS driver and Dell D610
Mark A-J. Raught
mraught at acm.org
Thu Jun 22 02:14:26 UTC 2006
Colin Faber wrote:
> 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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I am currently running linux on my laptop with the broadcom card in it,
but I had a couple problems when I first set it up in FreeBSD. Here are
some tips I can give, hopefully they'll help. First I had 2 inf files
available and I needed to use the ascii one (bcmwl5a.inf) and the sys
file (bcmwl5.sys) with the other file (bcmwl5.inf) it appeared to work,
but no love. This was about a year ago, so it may not matter now.
The other main thing is to make sure your wireless is physically on. On
my laptop I need to hold the Fn button and hit F2. That turns the
wireless on and off. However, the first time I needed to go into the
BIOS and set it to ON instead of Last Used (or LAST STATE, or somesuch)
that leaves it in the last state it was in. After it started once, I
could then change the BIOS back and it worked properly after that.
Finally, make sure you are following the correct directions, the last
time I needed to use NDIS I set it all up and it seemed to be correct,
but you needed to use some wizard instead of the "classic" way. This
also may have changed since then (again about a year ago).
-mark
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