Recognizing & using a Broadcom wireless mini-PCI card?

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

Someone has to maintain / update the broadcom wifi drivers. Sorry :(



-a


On 10 April 2015 at 08:28, David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org> wrote:
> My current laptop (Dell Precision M4800) mostly works well under
> FreeBSD; one of its shortcomings is that the wireless card with which it
> came shows up as :
>
> none1 at pci0:3:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x00171028 chip=0x43b114e4 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>     class      = network
>
> After reading bwn(4) a bit, I had thought/hoped that perhaps the
> lack of recognition of the device was because I hadn't loaded the kernel modules that bwn(4) cited.  So I tried inserting:
>
> if_bwn_load="YES"
> # siba_bwn_load="YES"
> bwn_v4_lp_ucode_load="YES"
> bwn_v4_ucode_load="YES"
>
> into /boot/loader.conf & rebooting (to ensure that the modules were
> present as early as possible... no joy: the above was obtained after
> such a reboot.
>
> As a circumvention, I've swpped the iwn(4) card in from my revious
> laptop, but it's not exactly ideal, either.
>
> How might I help get the above-described Broadcom device functional
> in a FreeBSD environment?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Peace,
> david
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