Install NetBSD 9.0 in HP Mini netbook (wireless card problem)

pmamatsis

Hi everyone and nice meeting you all,
i am coming from the Linux ecosystem and i wanted to start replacing my home PCs with BSDs. I started with one netbook that i have lying around at home. I have installed NetBSD successfully but i couldn't bring up my wireless NIC. The model is Broadcom BCM4315, i have searched around and i have found the bwi driver but unfortunately from what i read in the NetBSD documentation it's only for BCM430x chipsets.

Does anyone else had any similar issue? This meas that my wireless card is not compatible with NetBSD?

Thank you all in advance,
Panos.

pmamatsis You could have a look towards the end of this thread and see if that helps.

nia

If it doesn't appear in ifconfig then there's no driver. The easiest way to work around that would be to get a cheap USB 11n device, but you could also try replacing the mPCIe card if there's no list of allowed cards in the BIOS

aponomarenko

It works only in FreeBSD currently: https://bsd-hardware.info/?id=pci:14e4-4315-1028-000c