Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

[Scot Hetzel]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
> El día Wednesday, October 27, 2010 a las 12:12:09PM -0500, Scot Hetzel escribió:
>
>> > Where did you get your bcmwl5 driver?  If you downloaded it from Acer,
>> > it should work.  If you downloaded it from anywhere else then this
>> > might be why it didn't work for you.
>> >
>>
>> Just noticed that you didn't specify your computer manufacture.  The
>> above would only work for Matthias Apitz.
>>
>> You just need to download the driver from the manufacture of your computer.
>
> Why is this? Isn't it just the Wifi chip which matters? Could you sheet
> a bit light on this? Thanks
>
When you get the Windows NDIS driver from the computer manufacture,
you are ensured that your card is supported by that version of the
driver.  If you download the Windows NDIS driver from another source,
that driver may not include support for your card as it might be an
older version.

Also, some versions of the Windows NDIS driver may use functions that
are not currently implemented in the FreeBSD NDIS emulator.

Scot