Re: FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 issues Acer Aspire 5102 WLMi

"Scot Hetzel" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile,gmane.os.freebsd.stable,gmane.os.freebsd.questions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/18/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> First thanks for the hard work to make FreeBSD good for desktop environment.
>
> Here is my case with Acer Aspire 5102 WLMi with the latest bios 2.40
>

> 2. I can't use my WLAN which is broadcom, I was forced to use an older
> drivers, since ndis has problem with reading the latest driver from
> broadcom.
> Here are the files
> http://bb.wearab.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=472&d=1166427326
> http://bb.wearab.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=473&d=1166427326
>
> And here is the 78 MB full package for the driver in zip file
> ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_3100_5100_5110/driver/802bg_broadcom_v4.10.40.0.zip
>
> Could someone convert the 2 files to a kernel module? please let me know.
>
You need to apply the patch in PR 106131 to use the newer versions of
the broadcom driver.  I have tested it with version 4.10.40.19 from
HPs web site (SP33008.exe).

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=106131

Scot
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