Any success stories for BCM 4331?

John Nielsen lists at jnielsen.net
Mon Apr 27 17:18:47 UTC 2015


I have a mid-2012 15” Retina MacbookPro10,1. I’ve been mostly successful getting FreeBSD to run on it (I’ll do a blog post on that later), but haven’t had any luck with the built-in wireless:

none4 at pci0:4:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x00ef106b chip=0x433114e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n'
    class      = network

Some googling led me to believe that although this chip isn’t supported by bwn(4), it ought to work with ndis(4). However, I haven’t had any success. Modules I load based on bcmwl664.sys (I’ve found and tried several different versions) just complain that there is “no match for” a bunch of function names and then I get “NDIS dummy called…”.

Modules I load based on bcmwl564.sys seem to identify the card, but then I get “driver attach returned 12” and no usable interface.

Does anyone have any ideas or pointers to a specific Windows driver that works with NDIS?

Thanks,

John Nielsen



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