[x-post] BCM4313 Wireless LAN Controller in FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE

[Felix Friedlander]

Hello,
I am not 100% sure, but I don’t think either the bwi(4) or bwn(4) drivers support the BCM4313. I am in the midst of updating the bwn driver but this is still a way off. In the meantime, NDIS is your best bet. By the way, the device name would be:
bwi0 if you are using bwi,
bwn0 if you are using bwn,
ndis0 if you are using a driver generated with ndis.
Hope this helps!
> On 7 May 2015, at 5:14 pm, Avinash Sonawane <rootkea at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I am pretty new to BSD world <BSDn00b here!>. I just installed FreeBSD
> 10.1-RELEASE on my system.
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD titanic.rootkea.me 10.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE #0
> r274401: Tue Nov 11 21:02:49 UTC 2014
> root at releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> # pciconf -lv | grep -B3 -i wireless
>   subclass   = HDA
> none3 at pci0:18:0:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x00101028 chip=0x472714e4
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>   vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>   device     = 'BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller'
> 
> I have also installed the port net/bwn-firmware-kmod using make install clean.
> 
> I have also made changes to /boot/loader.conf as suggested in the
> Handbook. Here is my /boot/loader.conf
> # cat /boot/loader.conf
> if_bwn_load="YES"
> wlan_wep_load="YES"
> wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
> wlan_tkip_load="YES"
> 
> But now I am confused about the next step.
> According to handbook it should be # ifconfig wlan0  create wlandev ath0 [1]
> I have no idea what to write in place of ath0. So I tried bwn and
> bwn0. But both the times system said
> "ifconfig : SIOCIFCREATE2 : Device not configured"
> 
> So how do I access wireless in my FreeBSD box?
> 
> PS- On surfing the net I stumbled upon using ndisgen to install the
> BCM4313 driver [2]. But I would really appreciate if there is any
> other way to natively install the driver on FreeBSD instead of
> converting the WINDOWS(R) driver.
> Or is this the only way?
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Links:
> [1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html#idp79356624
> [2] http://blog.cochard.me/2012/10/using-bcm4313-wireless-chip-under.html
> 
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> Avinash Sonawane (RootKea)
> PICT, Pune
> http://rootkea.wordpress.com
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