Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:58:30 -0400 (EDT) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: does the bwn drive support the Broadcom 4353 chip [resolved] Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008271055050.10822@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008260146310.76013@fledge.watson.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008260146310.76013@fledge.watson.org>
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, doug wrote: > I have a inspiron 1724 with a Dell Wireless 1520 card. It looked to me that > the bmw driver in 8.1 might support this card. pciconf shows: > > none3@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x000e1028 chip=0x435314e4 rev=0x01 > hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > class = network > > After trying a number of things, I decided to build a kernel with the > required devices. The device is still not recognized. Does this driver not > support the 1520? If the driver is still evolving, I am happy to supply a > test system. > Never mind - found Apr 24 post from the bwn maintainer: "... BCM4353 uses N PHY so it's not supported by bwn(4). I think NDIS driver is only a way to try currently." Sorry for the noise
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