Broadcom wireless NIC on R3000

[Andrew Lankford]

After getting ACPI working with Kim's hints on this list and waiting for 
several useful commits to -STABLE, ACPI works and my parallel port along 
with it.  That leaves the onboard Wifi capability as the only thing I 
can't use on FreeBSD.

The realtek NIC has always worked fine, but I only recently got the 
kernel to recognize the Broadcom wireless NIC.  Using the 64-bit 
ndisulator and a downloaded windows driver that was linked to on this 
list a month or two ago, I can load the right modules and get the right 
device probe messages, etc.   The interface shows up in ifconfig too, 
but it's always "no-carrier", no matter what settings I try, and the 
little blue WiFi indicator light doesn't go on like it does in Windows.

According to the manual, the antenna is turned on and off by the toggle 
button right next to the indicator light.  I take that to mean that 
there's some sort of interface that physically controls signals to/from 
the antenna, and that it's set to "off" by default in FreeBSD.  Ergo no 
connection to the antenna --> no carrier --> no joy.

Has anyone tackled this problem before?  Google hasn't given me any leads.

Andrew Lankford