Q: support for Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g Wireless

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Fri May 17 06:28:09 UTC 2013


There's unfortunately no active bwn driver maintainer.

:(

Sorry,


Adrian

On 16 May 2013 23:12, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've updated one of my laptops to /head r250588; the laptop has a Wifi
> chips which was not supported and I have had to use NDIS and the
> generated kmod bcmwl5_sys.ko; before compiling it again now, I wanted to
> ask if the chip is now supported in /head; if I load if_bwn.ko it says:
>
> # kldload if_bwn
> siba_bwn0: <Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g Wireless> mem 0x57100000-0x57103fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
>
> and hard locks the laptop.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks
>
>         matthias
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