Hi John, > I want to know if there is any chance to enable Broadcom BCM 43224 in netbsd. > What driver (even similar driver) i could use for this.
congrats on switching from text/html to text/plain. That makes your mails readable for me (I'm using mail(1) from base) and deserves a reply. Most chapter 4 man pages for the various drivers explicitly list the chips and product brand names supported by the driver. NetBSD's "man -k" keyword search is now full-text based, and that makes it much easier to search for drivers or the stat of support. On NetBSD-8-stable, I get these results: man -k 43224 ==> nothing man -k bmc ==> a single false hit ("bcms" in dhcp-options(5)) man -k braodcom ==> half a dozen broadcom network drivers Out of the latter, bwi(4) appears to be the closest candidate, but not a really good match for your hardware. It lists: HARDWARE The following cards are among those supported by the bwi driver: Card Chip Bus Standard Buffalo WLI-CB-G54 BCM4306 CardBus b/g Buffalo WLI3-CB-G54L BCM4318 CardBus b/g Buffalo WLI-PCI-G54S BCM4306 PCI b/g Dell Wireless 1370 BCM4318 Mini PCI b/g Dell Wireless 1470 BCM4318 Mini PCI b/g Dell Truemobile 1400 BCM4309 Mini PCI b/g Dell Latitude D505 BCM4306 PCI b/g Apple AirPort Extreme b/g Alas, the "43224" doesn't appear to be closely related to this 43xy chip family. That's the general idea to look for a driver. It also makes sense to "man -k" for product or model names. You *might* be more lucky with NetBSD-9 or -current, I didn't check these. Usually, NetBSD will auto-detect all hardware which it supports. So don't expect too much. These "man -k" checks are best before you invest in new hardware to see wether it would be supported. Martin Neitzel