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Date:      Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:17:01 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1
Message-ID:  <20090223181701.GD40292@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <9a52b1190902230851j32a91ea3n130af1d780945ec3@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <9a52b1190902230851j32a91ea3n130af1d780945ec3@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:51:05PM +0000, Saifi Khan wrote:
> Hi all:
>=20
> Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and
> i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1

There are no Broadcom wireless drivers in 7.1. The command 'apropos
broadcom' only returns a couple of wired ethernet drivers, a crypto
accellerator and a bleutooth device.

DragonFly BSD has a bwi(4) driver that supports the BCM430x/4318, but no
mention of the 4311.

<snip>
> Interestingly on the same laptop, there is a ethernet card of RTL
> 8139, which is also not detected by FreeBSD 7.1 . However, lets not
> worry about that for the time being.

Both the RealTek 8139 and the RealTek 8139C+ should work, but they use
different drivers. See re(4) and rl(4).

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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