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From: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: wireless on HP compaq 6715s - Broadcom BCM5906m - not supported?
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On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> w=
rote:
> I've HP Compaq 6715s laptop.
> Looking at "pciconf -lv" output, the
> wireless (and ethernet) device is:
>
>
> bge0@pci0:16:0:0: =A0 =A0 =A0 class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x30c2103c chip=3D0=
x171314e4 rev=3D0x02 hdr=3D0x00
> =A0 =A0vendor =A0 =A0 =3D 'Broadcom Corporation'
> =A0 =A0device =A0 =A0 =3D 'Broadcom NetLink (TM) Fast Ethernet (BCM5906m)=
'
> =A0 =A0class =A0 =A0 =A0=3D network
> =A0 =A0subclass =A0 =3D ethernet

I see only ethernet, which is supported fine.

>
> I tried to search on the net, including FBSD hardware release notes,
> and it seems this device is not supported.

For wireless check bwi(4) and bwn(4) manual pages.

> Can anybody comment on/confirm this please?
>
> Any experience using this chip with NDIS?

Works fine on i386, with few known problems with known workarounds.
amd64 is usually broken.