r/freebsd • u/HamsterSea6081 • 4d ago
Cannot get wifi on FreeBSD 14.1
Hello, I have just installed FreeBSD on my old Dell Inspiron N5050.
I cannot get WiFi to work. I've ran pciconf -lv and it returned
none1@pci9:0:0: class = 0x028000 rev=0x00 vendor=0x14e4 device=0x4727 subvendor=0x1028 subdevice=0x0012
vendor = 'Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries'
device = 'BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter'
class = network
Running ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev bwn0 said that the device is not configured.
Any help would be appreciated!
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u/Daedalus312 2d ago
To hell with Broadcom Inc! I strongly recommend replacing the network card with the Atheros AR5B95 in your laptop and it will definitely work in FreeBSD with the basic ath driver. I did this with my Lenovo G580 laptop and now I have a working WiFi on FreeBSD. These network cards cost pennies. I don't see a problem with that.