Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:43:17 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: "Sean@GMAIL" <srkean@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My experiment which FreeBSD, stuck with wireless card. Message-ID: <20070921154317.GA84570@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <46F28AB7.3040001@gmail.com> References: <46F28AB7.3040001@gmail.com>
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--mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:29:03PM -0230, Sean@GMAIL wrote: > Is there a solution to this issue for PCBDS 1.3? I am using the WN825G o= n=20 > an old IBM TP 600. According to the user guide, this card uses a Broadcom 4306 & 2050. AFAIK, these chips are not supported under freebsd. Broadcom doesn't specs and programming information to the open source community. They only support their customers if they want to make a driver. For everyone looking for a working wireless card, the following advice; - look through the manual pages for the networking device drivers to locate supported chipsets. =20 - locate a card with a supported chipset. Yes, this takes some effort, but until open source drivers are commonplace, that's the way it is. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFG8+aVEnfvsMMhpyURAofCAKCPi0AOp/PDsNmwAOsKi5jCO+45TQCffUb8 FCOjk2Rbfe0jwOVtq010/V0= =66l1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+--
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