Re: port-i386/46916: Wireless network adapter is not recognized (not configured)

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/46916; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/46916: Wireless network adapter is not recognized (not 
configured)
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:28:49 +0700

     Date:        Thu,  6 Sep 2012 14:45:00 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        tobias%iso100.se@localhost
     Message-ID:  <20120906144500.8432A63BD00%www.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   | vendor 0x14e4 product 0x4727 (miscellaneous network, revision 0x01) at 
pci4 dev 0 function 0 not configured
 
 14e4 is Broadcom for which doc on chipsets (and particularly the
 wireless stuff) is apparently very hard to get.
 
 The chances of a driver for that one (unless you can make a ndis derived
 driver from windows work) are probably not high anytime soon.
 
 kre