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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:27:06 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Weongyo Jeong <weongyo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r212625 - head/share/man/man4
Message-ID:  <201009142327.o8ENR6UH095815@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: weongyo
Date: Tue Sep 14 23:27:06 2010
New Revision: 212625
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/212625

Log:
  Fixes spellings and uses the better sentence.  While I'm here bumps
  date.
  
  Pointed by:	imp, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src at yandex dot ru>

Modified:
  head/share/man/man4/bwn.4

Modified: head/share/man/man4/bwn.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/bwn.4	Tue Sep 14 21:40:29 2010	(r212624)
+++ head/share/man/man4/bwn.4	Tue Sep 14 23:27:06 2010	(r212625)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd September 11, 2010
+.Dd September 14, 2010
 .Dt BWN 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -93,12 +93,11 @@ driver supports Broadcom BCM43xx based w
 .It "US Robotics 5411	BCM4318	CardBus	b/g"
 .El
 .Pp
-However if the device chipset is one of BCM4301, BCM4303 and BCM4306 rev 2,
-uses
+Users of older Broadcom chipsets (BCM4301, BCM4303 and BCM4306 rev 2)
+must use
 .Xr bwi 4
-instead of
-.Xr bwn 4
-because the vendor dropped the firmware support.
+because the v4 version of the firmware does not support these chips.
+The newer firmware is too big to fit into these old chips.
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
 .Pp



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