Re: NetBSD on MacBook 4.1

[סטֵפָן פָּבִיקֵבִיק <theanapplegeek%gmail.com@localhost>]

* When I tried compiling a kernel with NDIS support and the header
file from the converter.

On 9 August 2012 19:19, סטֵפָן פָּבִיקֵבִיק 
<theanapplegeek%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hmm, my Wi-Fi card seems to be BCM4321. Here's from lspci from linux:
> Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)
>
> I also tried NDIS, but the NDIS convertor program doesn't seem to work
> well. It produced a *bad* header file. When I tried compiling it, it
> gave me some errors. Is it possible to compile a NDIS module for
> NetBSD 6 modular kernel?
>
> If anyone is able to look up the Broadcom STA driver for Linux, here
> is a link: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php/
>
> Thanks, God bless!
>
> On 9 August 2012 18:10, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>> On 9 August 2012 10:42, סטֵפָן פָּבִיקֵבִיק 
>> <theanapplegeek%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>> Actually I can't really boot FreeBSD nor DragonflyBSD, because they give me
>>> panic on ACPI, and even with disabled ACPI, DragonflyBSD doesn't boot,
>>> FreeBSD 64 bit will boot from time to time, but when I had PC-BSD (32 bit)
>>> there was some partial success in booting, but Wi-Fi never worked. I even
>>> upgraded to 9.1 BETA, but didn't work.
>>>
>>> I will also try OpenBSD these days, if I get my drive to read the OpenBSD
>>> CD, because it doesn't want to read CDs. Only DVDs. I have NetBSD on DVD,
>>> and that's how I installed it.
>>
>> OK, so its quite possible that none of the BSDs currently support your
>> BCM4306 rev3 wireless chipset.
>>
>> I don't know how difficult it would be to support - certainly someone
>> could look at the Linux driver and compare how it drives a BCM4306
>> rev3 compared to earlier chipsets. It *might* be easy or it night be a
>> nightmare.
>>
>> In the shorter term one option could be a USB mini wifi dongle - (the
>> ones that stick out about 5mm from the machine). They tend to start
>> from around $5 on eBay but again I don't know which chipsets would be
>> supported.
>>
>> Actually at that price I've just ordered one myself to have a play...