[SPAM] freebsd-current Digest, Vol 367, Issue 6

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>   1. Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi) (Matthias Apitz)
>   2. Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi) (Matthias Apitz)
>   3. Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi) (Matthias Apitz)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:23:48 +0200
>From: Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>
>Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)
>To: Alberto Villa <avilla at FreeBSD.org>
>Cc: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com>, current at FreeBSD.org
>Message-ID: <20101027172348.GA1264 at tiny.Sisis.de>
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>El d燰 Wednesday, October 27, 2010 a las 05:10:32PM +0000, Alberto Villa escribi:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Where did you get your bcmwl5 driver? If you downloaded it from Acer,
>> > it should work. If you downloaded it from anywhere else then this
>> > might be why it didn't work for you.
>> 
>> i don't remember, actually. anyway i thought the 5 was the driver
>> version, i've just understood that it's the windows version :P
>> i'll try the acer one, thanks for the suggestion!
>
>I could no get any bcmwl5 driver from Acer, only bcmwl6 version (which
>is also installed in Win7 in my laptop). I have even asked Broadcom, but
>they pointed me back to my dealer, to the reseller of the Acer laptop.
>And asking them, they pointed to Acer. If someone has an bcmwl5 from
>Acer, please contact me off-list.
>
>	matthias
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>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:06:10 +0200
>From: Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>
>Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)
>To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com>
>Cc: Alberto Villa <avilla at freebsd.org>, current at freebsd.org
>Message-ID: <20101028060610.GB1900 at current.Sisis.de>
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>El d燰 Wednesday, October 27, 2010 a las 12:12:09PM -0500, Scot Hetzel escribi:
>
>> > Where did you get your bcmwl5 driver? If you downloaded it from Acer,
>> > it should work. If you downloaded it from anywhere else then this
>> > might be why it didn't work for you.
>> >
>> 
>> Just noticed that you didn't specify your computer manufacture.  The
>> above would only work for Matthias Apitz.
>> 
>> You just need to download the driver from the manufacture of your computer.
>
>Why is this? Isn't it just the Wifi chip which matters? Could you sheet
>a bit light on this? Thanks
>
>	matthias
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>Message: 3
>Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:32:55 +0200
>From: Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>
>Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)
>To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com>
>Cc: Alberto Villa <avilla at freebsd.org>, current at freebsd.org
>Message-ID: <20101028063255.GA17624 at current.Sisis.de>
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>El d燰 Wednesday, October 27, 2010 a las 12:07:51PM -0500, Scot Hetzel escribi:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Alberto Villa <avilla at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> NDISulator does not support 6.X NDIS API. You will need to find bcmwl5
>> >> driver. Note 5 vs 6 in driver name.
>> >> Editing inf files will give you nothing.
>> >
>> > i've tried that driver, but apparently it doesn't support my card...
>> > loading the .ko doesn't show anything...
>> 
>> Where did you get your bcmwl5 driver?  If you downloaded it from Acer,
>> it should work.  If you downloaded it from anywhere else then this
>> might be why it didn't work for you.
>
>Following Scot's hint (thanks for this) I downloaded today morning the
>WinXP x86 driver zip archive from www.Acer.com and built the bcmwl5_sys.ko with
>ndisgen(8). The system panics on early boot stages when the kmod was
>pulled in via loader.conf.
>
>If the system is up, you can kldload the module fine and the interface
>ndis0 appears and even the card gets associated with the AP (i.e.
>wpa_supplicant(8) must work fine).
>
>The ifconfig(8) shows the interface as:
>
>ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>	ether 90:4c:e5:00:06:ce
>	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
>	status: associated
>
>and the Wifi indicator light of the laptop is green.
>
>But:
>
># dhclient ndis0
>ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument
>ndis0: not found
>
>and the same is with
>
># ifconfig ndis0 192.168.2.200
>
>All this is with a 8-CURRENT kernel/system as of May 2009. I will now build a
>USB key from HEAD and will continue testing.
>
>Thanks
>
>	matthias
>
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