BCM94313

[Waitman Gobble]

Waitman Gobble <uzimac at da3m0n8t3r.com> wrote ..
> Hi,
> 
> I bought an HP dv6-6c48us this morning, FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT runs great, no issues
> except wireless. Xorg, graphics, sound, etc works perfectly.
> 
> I immediately tore off the back panel and ripped out the Broadcom wireless/bt card
> and put in an Atheros AR5B195 1/2 height BT combo... but apparently the bios doesn't
> like it, refuses to even try to boot, and reports a message about an 'unsupported
> wireless device.. remove and restart machine'.
> 
> so i'm guess i'm stuck with BC... Or maybe I can look at using coreboot to replace
> the bios so i can use whatever wireless card i feel like, but first i suppose i'll
> try getting the BC card to work first.
>  
> They covered up the id info with a label (isn't the fcc id like a requirement?
> not sure.). The p/n is 657325-001. I found it listed on ebay as BCM94313HMGBL.
> It does not look like bwi and bwn kernel modules will work with this card. 
> 
> I haven't tried bluetooth yet, but the bt kernel module seems to identify the hardware
> properly and it looks like it will work. Which is odd, at least to me, b/c I think
> the BC wireless is a BT combo.. but maybe they are independent devices glued to
> the same board. not sure.
> 
> Does anyone have a recommendation to get the wireless card working... I might have
> to hunt down the win32 driver and use ndis... (?) or perhaps somebody here has
> experience with an hp, chucking the bios and replacing with coreboot... but i think
> i'm holding off on that.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> -- 
> Waitman Gobble
> San Jose California USA

ooops, sorry - the drivers for this machine, on the hp site, are for a realtek wireless card. at the moment i only have the hp part model which is reported as bc.. still checking into it.

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Waitman Gobble
San Jose California USA