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Date:      Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:31:48 -0800
From:      "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com>
To:        "Abdullah Al-Marrie" <almarrie@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>, freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Acer Aspire 5102 WLMi with Turion 64 X2 dual-core TL-50 1.6 GHz on FreeBSD 6.2 ACPI problems
Message-ID:  <790a9fff0612201531q7b07dd75p1929ae6a9b825521@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/20/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie <almarrie@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I have problem with my new laptop Acer Aspire 5102 WLMi which has AMD
> Turion=99 64 X2 dual-core TL-50 1.6 GHz with 1.5 GB of ram.
>
> I'm running i386 6.2-RC1 upgraded to 6.2-PRELEASE via RELENG6 tag
> since I don't have more than 4 GB of ram.
>
> 1. The FreeBSD can't detect the builtin wlan chip which is Broadcom
> BCM 4318 Rev 2.
>
You need to use the Windows NDIS driver to use the Broadcom Wireless adapte=
r.

You just need to download the driver from Acer's web site, and then
use ndisgen to build the kernel module.

Scot
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