From 4839bf82b72693267be4e61cff8bc0d4a61d03bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: weongyo Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:49:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mentions cases when bwi(4) driver should be used that it only wrote about chipset type instead of card names because it's not easy to sort names what cards use these chipsets. Pointed by: imp --- share/man/man4/bwn.4 | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/share/man/man4/bwn.4 b/share/man/man4/bwn.4 index 23514f58a596..856012eb241f 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/bwn.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/bwn.4 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd September 6, 2010 +.Dd September 11, 2010 .Dt BWN 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -92,6 +92,13 @@ driver supports Broadcom BCM43xx based wireless devices, including: .It "TRENDnet TEW-401PCplus BCM4306 CardBus b/g" .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 +.Xr bwi 4 +instead of +.Xr bwn 4 +because the vendor dropped the firmware support. .Sh EXAMPLES Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): .Pp