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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:28:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com>
To:        "..."@twoflower.idi.ntnu.no
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Broadcom Wireless card
Message-ID:  <20070207142711.V6583@demos.bsdclusters.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070207201342.GA66964@twoflower.idi.ntnu.no>
References:  <E1HEnbC-0000mO-C8@hetzner.co.za> <20070207201342.GA66964@twoflower.idi.ntnu.no>

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I can't comment on the mini-pci version, but NDIS works just fine with 
the cardbus version. It would be interesting to figure out where ndis is 
falling short.

 					-Kip


> On ons, feb 07, 2007 at 04:16:38pm +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I've got a dell laptop with a BCM4306 mini-pci adaptor.  My guess
>> is that broadcom haven't opened up their docs so there will be no
>> driver other than the NDIS one.  This is just an "I'm hoping that
>> I've missed something message".
> I tried making it work with ndiswrapper but I gave up after some time.
> I found a driver from Dell that should support it, but it would just
> find the device, using it with ifconfig, dhclient etc. did not work.
>
> I would just recommend buying an iwi chip.
>
> -- 
> Ulf Lilleengen
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