Broadcom WLAN on HP dv9000

Tue Mar 27 20:10:32 UTC 2007

Good day.  I have a Dell Insipron with a Broadcom wireless card.  I have
attempted the same steps below and received the same results.  Has anyone
been successful with the broadcom cards on Freebsd 6.2 amd64?  

Thanks,

Whipple

BSDUser UserBSD wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been reading different posts on how to make the onboard Broadcom
> WLAN card to work with FreeBSD 6.2-Release.
> 
> I have been using FreeBSD since version 4 so I have some knowledge about
> it.
> 
> System Specs:
> 
> HP Pavilion dv9000
> 
> AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 (2 GHz)
> 
> 1 GB RAM
> 
> Broadcom  802.11a/b/g WLAN (chip  4312, BCM4310 UART, none12 at pci3:0:0:)
> 
> Anyway, this is what I have done:
> My system is a HP Pavilion dv9000, so it already came shipped with an
> operating system.
> Using this system I figured out that the onboard WLAN card is a Broadcom
> 802.11a/b/g WLAN card using Driver Version: 4.40.19.0.
> I first started to go to www.hp.com and search for Windows 64-bit drivers
> for this card, but could not find any. What I found were the Windows Vista
> 64 drivers, which I downloaded.
> 
> I continued my search which led me to this webpage:
> http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/hpsp33008.tar.gz/view?searchterm=hpsp33008
> 
> I downloaded those drivers as well.
> 
> I downloaded the FreeBSD 6.2-Release amd64 iso images, burned them on cd's
> and booted the computer with disc 1.
> 
> While booting I new that the system would freeze, so I started it by
> entering:
> # set hint.apic.0.disabled="1"
> # boot 
> 
> and installed it without any further problems.
> 
> After installation I started the system again by disabling apic, logged in
> with my user account, copied the driver files to the system through a
> flash drive.
> 
> Thereafter I created the driver module:
> # ndisgen bcmwl5.inf bcmwl564.sys
> 
> Loading the module produced the following error message:
> # kldload ./bcmwl564_sys.ko
> no match for strrchr
> no match for MmFreeContiguousMemorySpecifyCache
> no match for MmAllocateContiguousMemorySpecifyCache
> no match for MmGetPhysicalAddress
> ndis0: <Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN> mem 0xc0400000-0xc0403fff at device 0.0
> on pci3
> ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
> fpudna in kernel mode!
> ndoskrnl dummy called...
> 
> 
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
> fault virtual address    = 0x1a
> fault code        = supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer    = 0x8:0xffffffffa83511eb
> stack pointer        = 0x10:0xffffffffa56461b0
> frame pointer        = 0x10:0xffffffffa83b8140
> code segment        = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>             = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1
> processor eflags    = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process        = 865 (kldload)
> trap number        = 12
> panic: page fault
> cpuid = 0
> Uptime: 4m17s
> Cannot dump. No dump device defined.
> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
> --> Press a key on the console to reboot,
> --> or switch off the system now.
> 
> 
> 
> I also tried to upgrade ndis which I found on one of the lists using the
> following procedure:
> 
> # setenv CVSROOT anoncvs at anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs
> # cvs checkout -rRELENG_6 src/sys/compat/ndis src/sys/dev/if_ndis
> 
> Copied the files to src/sys/compat/ndis and src/sys/dev/if_ndis,
> then rebuilt ndis.ko and if_ndis.ko:
> 
> # cd /sys/modules/ndis
> # make; make install
> # cd /sys/modules/if_ndis
> # make; make install
> 
> 
> and ran the command again:
> # kldload ./bcmwl564_sys.ko
> 
> but it resulted in the same error message.
> I also tried the Vista 64-bit drivers, but unfortunately the result was
> the same.
> 
> Can someone please give me some recommendations on how to solve this
> problem?
> 
> Regards
> 
> FreeBSD 6.2 User :D
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
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