broadcom network card problem
Glen Barber
hexidigital at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 15:12:16 PST 2007
svetimas alien said:
> Hello,
> I have lenovo v200 laptop with boardcom network card but my FreeBSD 6.2 does
> not detect it. I tryed loading win drivers, with kldload, converted with
> ndisgen but always get kernel panic. pciconf -lv shows this:
>
> none4 at pci5:0:0 class=0x020000 card=0x3c2c17aa chip=0x1713144e4 rev=0x02
> hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Broadcom corporation'
> class = network
> subclass ethernet
>
> How to load this?
What is the full name of the driver? bcmwl5_sys ?
If so, copy it into the /boot/kernel/ directory, and
load it with `kldload bcmwl5_sys` (or add
bcmwl5_sys_load="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf).
>
> I also have bce and bge kompiled in my kernel.
>
When this module is loaded, you will get a ndis0 device,
not bce or bge.
--
Glen Barber
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