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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:15:58 +0200
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB Wifi adapter (Atheros)
Message-ID:  <20101025081558.GA37528@current.Sisis.de>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikWnSXRFkzgc9r44G2J82OYpd7JkR25Cc9f1%2BZZ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20101025065706.GA82669@current.Sisis.de> <AANLkTikWnSXRFkzgc9r44G2J82OYpd7JkR25Cc9f1%2BZZ@mail.gmail.com>

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El día Monday, October 25, 2010 a las 08:04:54AM +0000, Paul B Mahol escribió:

> On 10/25/10, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've bought an Acer Aspire One D250 mini laptop which has an unsupported
> > Broadcom Wifi card build in (BCM4310 USB Controller). Can someone
> > recommend an USB Wifi key, for example with an Atheros chip, to use
> > until the Broadcom chip is supported in FreeBSD? I'm using 8-CURRENT as
> > of May 2009.
> >
> > I've tried as well the ndisgen(8) way based on the XP driver with no luck.
> 
> And you reported bug?

No. I have no problem with filing a bug report, but I was unsure if this
makes sense because we are talking (at least in parts) about Windows
software. Should I?

Btw: I pulled out HEAD from SVN and the chip is still unsupported, at
least not mentioned in sys/dev/bwn and sys/dev/bwi and its man pages.

	matthias
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