Author: weongyo
Date: Sat Sep 11 21:49:28 2010
New Revision: 212480
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/212480

Log:
  Mentions cases when bwi(4) driver should be used that it only wrote
  about chipset type instead of card names because it's not easy to sort
  names what cards use these chipsets.
  
  Pointed by:   imp

Modified:
  head/share/man/man4/bwn.4

Modified: head/share/man/man4/bwn.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/bwn.4   Sat Sep 11 20:18:15 2010        (r212479)
+++ head/share/man/man4/bwn.4   Sat Sep 11 21:49:28 2010        (r212480)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd September 6, 2010
+.Dd September 11, 2010
 .Dt BWN 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -92,6 +92,13 @@ driver supports Broadcom BCM43xx based w
 .It "TRENDnet TEW-401PCplus    BCM4306 CardBus b/g"
 .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
+.Xr bwi 4
+instead of
+.Xr bwn 4
+because the vendor dropped the firmware support.
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
 .Pp
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