svn commit: r212693 - head/share/man/man4
Warner Losh
imp at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 15 19:40:42 UTC 2010
Author: imp
Date: Wed Sep 15 19:40:42 2010
New Revision: 212693
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/212693
Log:
Add note abotu bwn and newer chipsets
Modified:
head/share/man/man4/bwi.4
Modified: head/share/man/man4/bwi.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/bwi.4 Wed Sep 15 19:40:08 2010 (r212692)
+++ head/share/man/man4/bwi.4 Wed Sep 15 19:40:42 2010 (r212693)
@@ -90,6 +90,20 @@ driver supports Broadcom BCM43xx based w
.It "TRENDnet TEW-401PCplus BCM4306 CardBus b/g"
.It "US Robotics 5411 BCM4318 CardBus b/g"
.El
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+driver uses the older v3 version of Broadcom's firmware.
+While this older firmware does support most BCM43xx parts, the
+.Xr bwn 4
+driver works better for the newer chips it supports.
+You must use the
+.Nm
+driver if you are using older Broadcom chipsets (BCM4301, BCM4303 and
+BCM4306 rev 2).
+The v4 version of the firmware that
+.Xr bwn 4
+uses does not support these chips.
.Sh EXAMPLES
Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
.Pp
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