[oi-dev] Broadcom BCM4312 wireless on OpenIndiana 64-bit

Jean-Pierre jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr
Fri Mar 15 08:10:19 UTC 2013


Jean-Pierre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jim Klimov wrote:
>> On 2013-03-07 16:22, Jean-Pierre wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I have finally been able to activate a 64-bit WiFi driver for a Broadcom
>>> BCM4312 wireless hardware on OpenIndiana (oi151a5).
>>
>> Hello, many of the details you've posted in the report (thanks BTW!)
>> seem like vague pointers for those who know what to google for -
>> perhaps by the words you've mentioned :)
>>
>> If there are particular blogs/articles to read and learn in order to
>> repeat your recipe for the reader's (i.e. my) hardware, could you
>> please post the URLs?
>>
>> For example, how did you locate and patch the multimedia registers,
>> or change linking of the driver, etc. to solve the issues you list?
>
> Most of my changes were done manually, from repeatedly analyzing
> why the OS went to panic, but I should be able to automate the changes.

For those interested, the source code of the upgraded ndis emulator
is available in :
http://jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/ndis.1.3.beta.tar.gz

Regards

Jean-Pierre





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