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From: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
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Subject: Re: bwi driver
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On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Ralph Zitz wrote:

> Hello
>
> I'm the unfortunate owner of the unsupported "Intel WiFi Link 5100 AGN" card. 
> Looking through some old hardware I found the following: "Linksys WPC54G 
> version 3.1" pccard. I realize that the bwi driver lists as only supporting 
> version 3, but might there be a chance my card works with the driver as well?
>
> When the card is inserted the kernel outputs the following:
> bwi0: <Broadcom BCM4318 802.11b/g Wireless Lan> mem 0xbf8a2000-0xbf8a3fff irq 
> 16 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
> bwi0: [ITHREAD]
> bwi0: no BBP id for device id 0x4318
> device_attach: bwi0 attach returned 6

You probably need to install the firmware port in 
/usr/ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod.