Old story: BCM43xx ver.2

[Nikolay Vernyayev]

Sam, thanks.

Hi Sephe!

Sorry for inconvinience, I really need to move bwirf.c to be working in FreeBSD 6.3 (not in Dragon Fly). 
May I, should I?

BR,
Nikolay Vernyayev
I am blogging here: http://nicoec.blogspot.com/

On Saturday 09 February 2008 17:29:55 Sam Leffler wrote:
> Ask sephe about his bwi driver.
> 
>     Sam
> 
> Nikolay Vernyayev wrote:
> > Hi Ted,
> >
> > Thank you.
> > I have done before ndis utilization for this, but... hmmm... It is not
> > really what I wanted.
> >
> > Idea is to find/make kernel based driver/module (similar to related Linux
> > project). This is part of requirements for one of my projects.
> >
> > BR,
> > Nikolay Vernyayev
> > I am blogging here:
> >
> > On Feb 9, 2008 4:44 AM, Ted Lindgreen <ted at tednet.nl> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> [Quoting Nikolay Vernyayev, on Feb  9, 10:18, in "Old story: BCM43xx v
> >> ..."]
> >> ...
> >>     
> >>> none0 at pci0:6:0: class=0x028000 card=0x000617f9 chip=0x431814e4 rev=0x02
> >>> hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> >>> device = 'BCM43XX Broadcom 802.11b/g'
> >>> class = network
> >>>       
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> My 2-year old Acer 3623 laptop has a similar wireless interface:
> >>  ndis0 at pci0:6:5:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x03121468 chip=0x431814e4
> >> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
> >>  vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> >>  device     = 'BCM43XX Broadcom 802.11b/g'
> >>  class      = network
> >>
> >> The laptop runs FreeBSD-current since I bought it, and is weekly
> >> updated. The Broadcom wireless card has run fine under ndis, on
> >> FreeBSD 6, 7, and now 8.
> >>
> >> However, make sure that you use the right BCMWL5.SYS and BCMWL5.INF
> >> files. I had first tried versions of these files downloaded from
> >> various places without success. Using the files from the Windows
> >> partition on the same laptop (in /mnt/dos/WINDOWS/Lan on my Acer),
> >> it works flawlessly. Appearently there are subtile differences in
> >> the versions of this card that are used in laptops of various
> >> vendors.
> >>
> >> regards,
> >> -- ted
> >>
> >>     
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