Wireless woes

[Jeff Rollin]

Robert,

Yes, that's the internal one. The one I'm configuring is external,
Cardbus-type. It's definitely atheros-based.

Jeff

On 18/05/06, Robert Blacquiere <freebsd at guldan.demon.nl> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:18:10AM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I just had a thought on this subject. Could the problem I'm having be
> due to
> > not having the firmware/hal? I never thought to install anything since
> it
> > works in SuSE 10.0 out of the box. Is there a firmware/hal package/port
> in
> > ports?
> >
> > Jeff.
> >
> <snip>
>
> Hi jeff,
>
> You don't have a atheros based wireless device. It seems that you have a
> broadcom wireless device:
>
> none4 at pci2:5:0: class=0x028000 card=0x000617f9 chip=0x431814e4 rev=0x02
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>     class    = network
>
> This is probably your wireless device.
>
> Robert
>
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