svn commit: r212625 - head/share/man/man4
Weongyo Jeong
weongyo at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 14 23:27:06 UTC 2010
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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