broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1

[Roland Smith]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:51:05PM +0000, Saifi Khan wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and
> i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1

There are no Broadcom wireless drivers in 7.1. The command 'apropos
broadcom' only returns a couple of wired ethernet drivers, a crypto
accellerator and a bleutooth device.

DragonFly BSD has a bwi(4) driver that supports the BCM430x/4318, but no
mention of the 4311.

<snip>
> Interestingly on the same laptop, there is a ethernet card of RTL
> 8139, which is also not detected by FreeBSD 7.1 . However, lets not
> worry about that for the time being.

Both the RealTek 8139 and the RealTek 8139C+ should work, but they use
different drivers. See re(4) and rl(4).

Roland
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