Gentles I have an old HP Pavillion DV6000 laptop, which has a Broadcom USB wireless device. Worked under Windows Vista. I installed freeBSD 8- stable, and see as the last line in dmesg ugen2.2: <Broadcom Corp> at usbus2 Ferreting with google suggests that 8.0 might have usb support for the ndis wrapper, but I am unable to get any joy either using the HP bcmwl5 drivers for the DV6000, or in attempting to use the bwi driver. (I have an old Compaq N1020 with a LinkSys wireless PCMCIA card, which I have successfully generated the ndis wrapper and works happily under 8-stable) Any thoughts? JeffD _____________________________ M 0427565791 jeff.dowsley@mac.com
On 2/16/10, Jeff Dowsley <jeff.dowsley@mac.com> wrote:> Gentles > > I have an old HP Pavillion DV6000 laptop, which has a Broadcom USB > wireless device. Worked under Windows Vista. I installed freeBSD 8- > stable, and see as the last line in dmesg > > ugen2.2: <Broadcom Corp> at usbus2 > > Ferreting with google suggests that 8.0 might have usb support for > the ndis wrapper, but I am unable to get any joy either using the HP > bcmwl5 drivers for the DV6000, or in attempting to use the bwi driver. > > (I have an old Compaq N1020 with a LinkSys wireless PCMCIA card, > which I have successfully generated the ndis wrapper and works > happily under 8-stable) > > Any thoughts?Firts, make sure you are using right driver. Second make sure that driver is for XP, because NDISulator supports only 5.1 NDIS api.
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:39:53AM +1100, Jeff Dowsley wrote:> Gentles > > I have an old HP Pavillion DV6000 laptop, which has a Broadcom USB > wireless device. Worked under Windows Vista. I installed freeBSD 8- > stable, and see as the last line in dmesg > > ugen2.2: <Broadcom Corp> at usbus2 > > Ferreting with google suggests that 8.0 might have usb support for > the ndis wrapper, but I am unable to get any joy either using the HP > bcmwl5 drivers for the DV6000, or in attempting to use the bwi driver.FYI recently OpenBSD commited urndis(4) driver into their tree that looks it could support your device if the device uses Broadcom 4320 chipset. But it looks nobody is working on it to port to FreeBSD. regards, Weongyo Jeong