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From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Acer Aspire 5102 WLMi with Turion 64 X2 dual-core TL-50 1.6 GHz
	on FreeBSD 6.2 ACPI problems
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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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