Re: does the bwn drive support the Broadcom 4353 chip [resolved]

doug <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, doug wrote:

> I have a inspiron 1724 with a Dell Wireless 1520 card. It looked to me that 
> the bmw driver in 8.1 might support this card. pciconf shows:
>
> none3@pci0:3:0:0:  class=0x028000 card=0x000e1028 chip=0x435314e4 rev=0x01 
> hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>    class      = network
>
> After trying a number of things, I decided to build a kernel with the 
> required devices. The device is still not recognized. Does this driver not 
> support the 1520? If the driver is still evolving, I am happy to supply a 
> test system.
>
Never mind - found Apr 24 post from the bwn maintainer: "... BCM4353 uses N PHY 
so it's not supported by bwn(4).  I think NDIS driver is only a way to try 
currently." Sorry for the noise

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