Bug 120243

Summary: [ndis] can't get work Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN on HP Pavilion DV8000 with DeskTopBSD 1.6
Product: Base System Reporter: Rostyslav <rostyslav>
Component: amd64Assignee: freebsd-amd64 (Nobody) <amd64>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Rostyslav 2008-02-03 20:10:00 UTC 
the system shows interface -Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN- as -fwe0-, but it
does not work at all. Help me please.

i turned on in loader.conf "if_fwe_load="YES" and in KERNEL device fwe,
device firewire is uncomment. i don't know what to do else. 
Thank You.
Ross
Comment 1 Volker 2008-02-03 20:23:52 UTC 
Ross,

the fwe (4) interface is the firewire interface.

Your Broadcom is most likely currently not supported by any of the
available drivers under FreeBSD. You should take a look at ndisgen.

See: man ndisgen (8)
Comment 2 Scot Hetzel 2008-02-03 22:57:43 UTC 
On Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 2:05 PM, ross <rostyslav@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> >Number:         120243
> >Category:       amd64
> >Synopsis:       can't get work  Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN on HP Pavilion DV8000 with DeskTopBSD 1.6

> the system shows interface -Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN- as -fwe0-, but it does not work at all. Help me please.
> i turned on in loader.conf "if_fwe_load="YES" and in KERNEL device fwe, device firewire is uncomment. i don't know what to do else.

To get the wireless working on the dv8000 systems, you need to
download the Windows XP driver:

4.40.19.0. - ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.exe

extract the files using archivers/cabextract, then use ndisgen to
build the ndis driver for your wireless adapter.

Scot
Comment 3 Volker 2008-02-11 14:25:51 UTC 
Ross: Can we close this PR now?
Comment 4 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-02-12 09:29:59 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Note that submitter has been asked for feedback.
Comment 5 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-05-05 02:42:45 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout (> 2 months).  Note that the advice to submitter was 
to use NDIS.