From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 25 08:15:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830471065670 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:15:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E40D8FC19 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:15:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [193.31.11.193] (helo=current.Sisis.de) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PAIDj-000237-LO; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:15:55 +0200 Received: from current.Sisis.de (current [127.0.0.1]) by current.Sisis.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o9P8FwW3046435; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:15:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by current.Sisis.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o9P8FwHJ046434; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:15:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: current.Sisis.de: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:15:58 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: Paul B Mahol Message-ID: <20101025081558.GA37528@current.Sisis.de> References: <20101025065706.GA82669@current.Sisis.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Originating-IP: 193.31.11.193 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB Wifi adapter (Atheros) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:15:57 -0000 El día Monday, October 25, 2010 a las 08:04:54AM +0000, Paul B Mahol escribió: > On 10/25/10, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I've bought an Acer Aspire One D250 mini laptop which has an unsupported > > Broadcom Wifi card build in (BCM4310 USB Controller). Can someone > > recommend an USB Wifi key, for example with an Atheros chip, to use > > until the Broadcom chip is supported in FreeBSD? I'm using 8-CURRENT as > > of May 2009. > > > > I've tried as well the ndisgen(8) way based on the XP driver with no luck. > > And you reported bug? No. I have no problem with filing a bug report, but I was unsure if this makes sense because we are talking (at least in parts) about Windows software. Should I? Btw: I pulled out HEAD from SVN and the chip is still unsupported, at least not mentioned in sys/dev/bwn and sys/dev/bwi and its man pages. matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/