Buffalo/Broadcom wireless N card

Sepherosa Ziehau sepherosa at gmail.com
Mon May 12 18:23:14 PDT 2008


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Walter <walter at spam.no> wrote:
> I'm trying to get a "Buffalo"/Broadcom wireless-N PC card

11n parts are not supported.

>  up and running; I'm intending to use it for a bridge.  In
>  contrast to FBSD (which I've already tried and failed to mod
>  to talk to this card), I found the device name on a DF page.

I don't think the exact model is listed.

>  So I'm hoping DF supports it.
>
>  When I boot DF in the machine that has this PCI card installed,
>  the boot hangs after the "HOSTNAME" message, and I have to Ctrl-
>  C the thing for it to continue booting.  Then it starts emitting
>  error messages:
>
>  This one several times:
>
>  sm-mta[595]: deamon Deamon0: problem creating SMTP socket
>  sm-mta[595]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendeamonsocket: deamon Deamon0:
> cannot bind: Can't assign requested address.
>
>  And this one last:
>
>  sm-mta[595]: deamon Deamon0: problem creating SMTP socket
>  sm-mta[595]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendeamonsocket: deamon Deamon0:
> server SMTP socket wedged: exiting
>
>  'pciconf -lv" returns this infomration on the card:
>
>  none0 at pci0:0:10:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x03531154 chip=0x432914e4
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>    device     = 'BCM43XNG 802.11n Network Adapter'
>    class      = network
>
>
>  Are the errors a result of trying to talk with this card?
>  Can someone direct me as to what to do?
>
>  Walter
>



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