Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:47:14 +0100 From: "Chris Rees" <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: "Warren Liddell" <shinjii@maydias.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless net Card Message-ID: <b79ecaef0808160847m4710b95cvd56d478015336233@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200808111813.42060.shinjii@maydias.com> References: <b79ecaef0808110017w177ebebbx352100a7440bc2f4@mail.gmail.com> <200808111813.42060.shinjii@maydias.com>
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2008/8/11 Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com>: >> Which Belkin wireless card do you have? Which arch are you running >> (i386/amd64)? >> >> I had horrific trouble with a Belkin on the Realtek chipset, played up >> with Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Fedora, even Windows! >> >> Trouble with Belkin is, you never know what you're getting. You need >> the revision number of the card, and then find out which chipset it >> is. Make sure the drivers you downloaded are for that exact revision. >> >> Hope you have more luck than I did, I tossed mine and bought a Ralink. >> >> Chris > > AMD64 Arch & ironically it worked beautifully for ages in windows, but i got > sick of windows having been used to FreeBSD, so i re-installed FreeBSD an > using the onboard LAN card atm, but am wanting to goto wireless. > > > none1@pci0:3:5:0: class=0x020000 card=0x700f1799 chip=0x700f1799 > rev=0x20 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Belkin Research and Development Labs' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > > Chipset is RT8185L an i used the ndisgen to create the .ko file, which is just > over 572kb in size. > > ironically the 8180 works fine, but naturally wont do my wireless card. > This card I have also had problems with. It appears to be an 8185, but nothing works with it. Even in Windows, unless you have the Belkin drivers, it won't work properly. I couldn't load the Windows driver with ndisgen either, and ndiswrapper in Linux doesn't work either, nor does the Realtek Linux driver. -- R< $&h ! > $- ! $+ $@ $2 < @ $1 .UUCP. > (sendmail.cf)
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