Wifi for Lenovo Laptop

[Chris]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>
> To: Chris <devnullaccount at yahoo.se>
> Cc: "freebsd-questions at freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>; Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 3:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
> 
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Chris wrote:
> 
>>  Using pciconf as per jb's hint tells me it is a broadcom I have:
>> 
>>  none3 at pci0:3:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x060814e4 chip=0x472714e4 
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>>  vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>>  device     = 'BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller'
>>  class      = network
>> 
>> 
>>  As per the release notes for 9.0 
> (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html#WLAN), the bwn(4) driver be 
> the one to use.
>> 
>>  Added the following to my /boot/loader.conf following the instructions in 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html and rebooted.
>> 
>>  if_bwn_load="YES"
>>  wlan_wep_load="YES"
>>  wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
>>  wlan_tkip_load="YES"
> 
> The last three are included in the GENERIC kernel.
> 
> The bwi and bwn drivers need firmware, which is provided by the 
> net/bwi-firmware-kmod and net/bwn-firmware-kmod ports.  So install 
> whichever is appropriate.  I think the driver tries to load the right
> firmware automatically, but haven't tried a Broadcom in a while, and it 
> might still be necessary to load the firmware module in 
> /boot/loader.conf.
> _______________________________________________
> 

Hi Warren,


thanks. Tried with the firmware as well but no better luck. On closer inspection of the bwn manual, it seems like the 4313 is not on the list of suppored versions.

What I did find though was that it is supposedly possible to get working using NDIS (even with amd64) as per this PC-BSD wiki page http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Wireless_Testing


I might try the NDIS, but will first see if I can find a USB card as the 'net seems to be full of talk about instability of the NDIS driver for the 4313.


Thanks to everyone for the help!


BR,

  Chris