bwi problems

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 31 May 2011, pál péter wrote:

> (pciconf -lv | grep Wireless >>   device = 'Broadcom Wireless b/g
> (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'). A searched it from the freeBSD 8.1 hardware notes,
> and it sais that i sould use the bwi kernel modul, so i do that. I also
> installed the bwi-firmware-kmod port, as the man bwi(4) sais.
> Heres my *l**oader.conf*:
>
> if_nfe_load="YES"
> if_bwi_load="YES"
> wlan_scan_up_load="YES"
> wlan_sta_load="YES"
> wlan_wep_load="YES"
> wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
> wlan_tkip_load="YES"

The firmware port installs a module that must also be loaded, 
bwi_v3_ucode.

bwi(4) is generally for older Broadcom cards, and newer ones are 
supported by bwn(4).  I don't know of an easy way to figure out which 
particular card is which other than comparing the PCI ID codes.