From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 18:17:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 383971065677 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:17:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF7C8FC1E for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:17:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n1NIH1mj096469; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:17:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 34F3EB850; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:17:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:17:01 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: Saifi Khan Message-ID: <20090223181701.GD40292@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <9a52b1190902230851j32a91ea3n130af1d780945ec3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5gxpn/Q6ypwruk0T" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9a52b1190902230851j32a91ea3n130af1d780945ec3@mail.gmail.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:17:09 -0000 --5gxpn/Q6ypwruk0T Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. > 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 --=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) --5gxpn/Q6ypwruk0T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkmi6B0ACgkQEnfvsMMhpyXloQCeKTn1nG6VJcHKQc/+IIa7GtgK 99gAoJzxsH5SXbtKfUhgzJypF3V7uBFB =iR94 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5gxpn/Q6ypwruk0T--