Re: Still no support for BCM 43228?

On Mon, 2 Oct 2023, Frog Lu wrote:

Hi,

> Hi. This is my first post in this list.
>
> I searched for a lot of documents through the web and the FreeBSD forums
> and help pages, but couldn't find any help on configuration for the
> wireless card broadcom BCM 43228.

I doubt anyone will work on that.  Not sure if it even was supported in
Broadcom's smac driver in Linux?


> Tried to use both bwm and bwi but it didn't work (or could I get the
> instructions wrong?). Then I found a page saying that my wifi card is not
> supported in FreeBSD.
>
> I was wondering if it is still not supported and if it will some day. Or
> the only solution is to install a USB wifi compatible dongle.
>
> The ethernet card is recognized ok. Could not test it yet, to check if it
> will work at GiB or FE.
>
> I have an old Lenovo Thinkpad (T430U) laptop that I would like to use with
> FreeBSD. If it still not supported, I will have to use the laptop with
> other OS.

Swap it for another supportted and known working card and use the
Laptop?

Otherwise https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox might be the best
solution; not sure which drivers the wifibox-brcm package supports.
Gabor?

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7