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authorweongyo <weongyo@FreeBSD.org>2010-09-14 23:27:06 +0000
committerweongyo <weongyo@FreeBSD.org>2010-09-14 23:27:06 +0000
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Fixes spellings and uses the better sentence. While I'm here bumps
date. Pointed by: imp, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src at yandex dot ru>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/bwn.4 b/share/man/man4/bwn.4
index 856012e..8e2592a 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/bwn.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/bwn.4
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd September 11, 2010
+.Dd September 14, 2010
.Dt BWN 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -93,12 +93,11 @@ driver supports Broadcom BCM43xx based wireless devices, including:
.It "US Robotics 5411 BCM4318 CardBus b/g"
.El
.Pp
-However if the device chipset is one of BCM4301, BCM4303 and BCM4306 rev 2,
-uses
+Users of older Broadcom chipsets (BCM4301, BCM4303 and BCM4306 rev 2)
+must use
.Xr bwi 4
-instead of
-.Xr bwn 4
-because the vendor dropped the firmware support.
+because the v4 version of the firmware does not support these chips.
+The newer firmware is too big to fit into these old chips.
.Sh EXAMPLES
Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
.Pp
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