Hey Scott,

I rebuilt the laptop (using the same disks)and it worked this time.
The only issue I see is that the ifconfig part does not list my router as
connected there is just a pair of "" there and not my ssid
When it boots the link comes up, dhclient starts then the link goes down and
the dhclient runs 3 times then the link comes back up

So in effect it is working 

Darran
http://www.deejc.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Scot Hetzel [mailto:swhetzel@gmail.com] 
Sent: 10 January 2008 22:08
To: Darran
Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Hung laptop now will not boot 7.0-RC1

On 1/10/08, Darran <darranc@deejc.net> wrote:
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> Thanks Scot I tried this one and I still don't get any connection showing
> when I look in ifconfig -a
>
> I ran ndisgen and bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl564.sys which created
bcmwl564_sys.ko,
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> I kldload'ed it and nothing .. even in the message's I don't see the usual
> Dell entry when the driver loads.
>

Do you have an entry similar to this in your dmesg?

ndis0: <Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN> mem 0xc0204000-0xc0205fff irq 21 at
device 2.0 on pci6

Scot