PCI WiFi card problem

[Simon Dick]

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 15:04, Brian Henning wrote:
> >On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Simon Dick wrote:
> 
> > Anyone got any idea if the following Mini PCI card will ever be
> 
> > supported in -current:
> 
> > none0 at pci0:10:0: class=0x028000 card=0x68041462 chip=0x430114e4
> 
> > rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
> 
> > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> 
> > device = 'BCM4301 802.11b IEEE 802.11b WLAN client chipset'
> 
> > class = network
> 
> > >From what I've seen there's no linux drivers for this either, anyone
> 
> > know if broadcom have any chance of releasing the necessary information?
> 
> > Funny coincidence here, apparently Linksys has a Linux driver for these in
> their base stations, but aren't releasing the source and
> 
> > therefore in violation of the GPL. Not suprisingly the slashdot mob is yelling
> at them to release the source.
> 
> > But no, there is no driver in FreeBSD as of yet.
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> I just bought a card with  the 'BCM4301 802.11b IEEE 802.11b WLAN client
> chipset.  Has there been any advances in support for this card?
> 
> Simon or Doug, have you had any luck with it?

To be honest I actually now have an Atheros based 802.11a/b/g mini pci
card installed instead. But the Broadcom one can be used nowadays using
the NDIS emulation layer which was introduced after FreeBSD 5.2.1 (think
people have got it working on that though). That basically allows use of
windows network drivers under freebsd, search for Project Evil