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Date:      Thu, 18 May 2006 11:04:31 +0100
From:      "Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin@gmail.com>
To:        "Robert Blacquiere" <freebsd@guldan.demon.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wireless woes
Message-ID:  <8a0028260605180304u15e49fd2v2bdd88fa666f19a5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060518063735.GN7154@bombur.guldan.demon.nl>
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Robert,

Yes, that's the internal one. The one I'm configuring is external,
Cardbus-type. It's definitely atheros-based.

Jeff

On 18/05/06, Robert Blacquiere <freebsd@guldan.demon.nl> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:18:10AM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I just had a thought on this subject. Could the problem I'm having be
> due to
> > not having the firmware/hal? I never thought to install anything since
> it
> > works in SuSE 10.0 out of the box. Is there a firmware/hal package/port
> in
> > ports?
> >
> > Jeff.
> >
> <snip>
>
> Hi jeff,
>
> You don't have a atheros based wireless device. It seems that you have a
> broadcom wireless device:
>
> none4@pci2:5:0: class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x000617f9 chip=3D0x431814e4 rev=
=3D0x02
> hdr=3D0x00
>     vendor   =3D 'Broadcom Corporation'
>     class    =3D network
>
> This is probably your wireless device.
>
> Robert
>
> --
> Microsoft: Where do you want to go today?
> Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow?
> FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what?
> OpenBSD: Hey guys you left some holes out there!
>



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