Broadcom USB wireless support?

Weongyo Jeong weongyo.jeong at gmail.com
Sat Mar 13 00:26:38 UTC 2010


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:39:53AM +1100, Jeff Dowsley wrote:
> Gentles
> 
> I have an old HP Pavillion DV6000 laptop, which has a Broadcom USB  
> wireless device.  Worked under Windows Vista.  I installed freeBSD 8- 
> stable, and see as the last line in dmesg
> 
> ugen2.2: <Broadcom Corp> at usbus2
> 
> Ferreting with google suggests that 8.0 might have usb support for  
> the ndis wrapper, but I am unable to get any joy either using the HP  
> bcmwl5 drivers for the DV6000, or in attempting to use the bwi driver.

FYI recently OpenBSD commited urndis(4) driver into their tree that
looks it could support your device if the device uses Broadcom 4320
chipset.

But it looks nobody is working on it to port to FreeBSD.

regards,
Weongyo Jeong


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