Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 08:37:35 +0200 From: Robert Blacquiere <freebsd@guldan.demon.nl> To: Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless woes Message-ID: <20060518063735.GN7154@bombur.guldan.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <8a0028260605171818o726cd827nd1f9a60ff0384a62@mail.gmail.com> References: <8a0028260605090912re6b7f7bkb181bba64a0d9f5c@mail.gmail.com> <20060509164329.208F245042@ptavv.es.net> <8a0028260605100727n67acdd35qfd1f25b15caee43f@mail.gmail.com> <8a0028260605161045g6043edfaqe8bb03f6a1e44901@mail.gmail.com> <8a0028260605171818o726cd827nd1f9a60ff0384a62@mail.gmail.com>
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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=0x028000 card=0x000617f9 chip=0x431814e4 rev=0x02
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
class = network
This is probably your wireless device.
Robert
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