From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 21 15:43:22 2007 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 19E7216A417 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:43:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE5B13C4AC for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:43:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l8LFhIGB050511; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:43:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D2A59B869; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:43:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:43:17 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: "Sean@GMAIL" Message-ID: <20070921154317.GA84570@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: "Sean@GMAIL" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <46F28AB7.3040001@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46F28AB7.3040001@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/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My experiment which FreeBSD, stuck with wireless card. 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: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:43:22 -0000 --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:29:03PM -0230, Sean@GMAIL wrote: > Is there a solution to this issue for PCBDS 1.3? I am using the WN825G o= n=20 > an old IBM TP 600. According to the user guide, this card uses a Broadcom 4306 & 2050. AFAIK, these chips are not supported under freebsd. Broadcom doesn't specs and programming information to the open source community. They only support their customers if they want to make a driver. For everyone looking for a working wireless card, the following advice; - look through the manual pages for the networking device drivers to locate supported chipsets. =20 - locate a card with a supported chipset. Yes, this takes some effort, but until open source drivers are commonplace, that's the way it is. 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) --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFG8+aVEnfvsMMhpyURAofCAKCPi0AOp/PDsNmwAOsKi5jCO+45TQCffUb8 FCOjk2Rbfe0jwOVtq010/V0= =66l1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+--