Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Paul B Mahol <onemda_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> i've tried ndis without success...
>
> Sharing you experience would help (if you are not on amd64).

i'm on i386 at the moment, but i'll switch to amd64 as soon as i
decide what to do (keep freebsd natively or virtualize it under
windows... it depends on the wireless driver). would that change
anything?

here's my experience. also, as a reference, here's what i get if i add
the device id to siba_bwn:
# kldload if_bwn
siba_bwn0: <Broadcom BCM43225 802.11b/g/n Wireless> mem
0xda100000-0xda103fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
siba_bwn0: cannot map register space
device_attach: siba_bwn0 attach returned 6
and here is the new open source driver:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211

and now, ndis. the driver is bcmwl6
(http://people.freebsd.org/~avilla/bcmwl6.inf and
http://people.freebsd.org/~avilla/bcmwl6.sys , apparently no need for
firmware files, but i'm not sure), which is said not to work with ndis
on linux forums (maybe they removed the support for winxp)
matthias: you should try bcmwl5, that could work for you

using the unmodified files i've attached (they default to winvista and
win7) i get this:
# kldload ./bcmwl6_sys.ko
module ndis already present!
no match for NdisMIndicateReceiveNetBufferLists
no match for NdisFreeNetBufferListPool
no match for NdisMRegisterScatterGatherDma
no match for NdisMAllocatePort
no match for NdisQueueIoWorkItem
no match for NdisMFreePort
no match for NdisMOidRequestComplete
no match for NdisMNetPnPEvent
no match for NdisAllocateIoWorkItem
no match for NdisFreeIoWorkItem
no match for NdisGetVersion
no match for NdisMSetMiniportAttributes
no match for NdisMDeregisterMiniportDriver
no match for NdisAllocateTimerObject
no match for NdisMPauseComplete
no match for NdisOpenConfigurationEx
no match for NdisFreeTimerObject
no match for NdisCancelTimerObject
no match for NdisSetTimerObject
no match for NdisMSynchronizeWithInterruptEx
no match for NdisMDeregisterInterruptEx
no match for NdisMRegisterInterruptEx
no match for NdisMIndicateStatusEx
no match for NdisFreeNetBufferList
no match for NdisGetSystemUpTimeEx
no match for NdisAllocateMdl
no match for NdisAllocateNetBufferAndNetBufferList
no match for NdisFreeMdl
no match for NdisMResetComplete
no match for NdisMSendNetBufferListsComplete
no match for NdisAllocateNetBufferListPool
no match for NdisMRegisterMiniportDriver
no match for NdisMDeregisterScatterGatherDma
no match for NdisAllocateMemoryWithTagPriority
no match for NdisMGetBusData
no match for NdisMSetBusData
no match for ZwQueryInformationFile
no match for ZwReadFile
no match for ZwCreateFile
no match for ExFreePoolWithTag
no match for IoRegisterPlugPlayNotification
no match for IoUnregisterPlugPlayNotification
NDIS dummy called...
NDIS dummy called...

which should mean that the driver doesn't support xp. so i tried
changing (in the .inf)
	%V_BCM% = BROADCOM, NTx86.6.0, NTamd64.6.0, NTx86.6.1, NTamd64.6.1
to
	%V_BCM% = BROADCOM, NTx86, NTamd64
and then i only get "module ndis already present!", but no interface shows up

i also tried removing NTx86, making it
	%V_BCM% = BROADCOM, NTamd64
(it should be correct), and with this modification i get the same
error messages of the first attempt

anyway i don't have any experience with ndis... should i test anything else?
-- 
Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avilla_at_FreeBSD.org>
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla