FreeBSD : Compaq Presario V3417AU (Broadcom WIFI)
In my previous post, FreeBSD : Compaq Presario V3417AU, I could not get broadcom wifi running with FreeBSD 7. Luckily, just before the Chinese New Year, I managed to get it working again. It’s timely for the CNY break. Sweet!!!!! 
Project Evil
# fetch ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34152.exe
# cabextract -F ‘bcmwl5*’ sp34152.exe
# ndisgen bcmwl5.inf bcmwl5.sys
# cp bcmwl5_sys.ko /boot/modules/
# kldxref /boot/modules
# kldload bcmwl5_sys
Using ndis0 with wpa_supplicant
Set up /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf with your WIFI network information (an example of WEP protected WLAN with DHCP enabled). You may enable wpa_supplicant automatically by setting /etc/rc.conf with ifconfig_ndis0="WPA mywifi DHCP". To initialise it, run /etc/rc.d/netif start ndis0
Additional configurations
i) /boot/loader.conf
if_ndis_load="YES"
bcmwl5_sys_load=”YES”
wlan_scan_sta_load=”YES”
wlan_scan_ap_load=”YES”
wlan_wep_load=”YES”
wlan_ccmp_load=”YES”
wlan_tkip_load=”YES”
wlan_xauth_load=”YES”
wlan_acl_load=”YES
ii) /etc/rc.conf
ifconfig_ndis0="WPA mywifi DHCP"
iii) /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
ap_scan=1
network={
ssid=”mywifi”
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_tx_keyidx=1
wep_key1=your_104bit_wep_key
}
