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From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <seklecki@noc.cfi.pgh.pa.us>
To: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:41 +0000, Eitan Adler wrote:
> I have a Lenovo G530 laptop with a broadcom wireless card.
> I downloaded the drivers referenced here:

If the driver didn't attach because IBM chose some exotic OEM PCI ID,
then the grep wont find it.

You really should post the full pciconf(8) and dmesg(8) for us, as well
as kldstat(8) -v.

uname(1) -a would also be helpful.

~BAS

> However pciconf -lv|grep bwi produces no output and ifconfig does not
> mention any wireless cards.
> 
> What should I try now?
> 
>