Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:25:42 +0000 From: Don Hinton <hintonda@gmail.com> To: Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cheap (supported) wifi card Message-ID: <18116.38566.699817.525560@localhost.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <46BC5B1F.7030208@crackmonkey.us> References: <18107.29558.834358.66922@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <46BC5B1F.7030208@crackmonkey.us>
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Hi Adam: Adam J Richardson writes: > Don Hinton wrote: > > Could someone recommend a good (and > > cheap) one that's includes a/b/g*/n and is supported, either natively > > or via ndis? > > Hi Don, > > I can heartily recommend any card based on the TNET1130 chipset. They > work very well with ndisgen. Examples include the Add-on Tech GWP-100 > and the Belkin F5D7 series, such as the F5D7051 USB key or the F5D7000 > cardbus card. They're all cheap. They do "a", "b" and "g". I'm not sure > about "n", though. I picked up a Belkin F5D7050, but can seem to figure out how to get it to work. I'm obviously missing something. $ dmesg <snip> ugen0: <Belkin USB2.0 WLAN, class 255/255, rev 2.00/48.10, addr 2> on uhub6 $ uname -a FreeBSD localhost 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #5: Mon Aug 13 16:23:35 UTC 2007 root@localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HP_SMP i386 I've compiled the following in my kernel, per man ural: device wlan # 802.11 support device wlan_amrr # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm device uhci # UHCI PCI->USB interface device ohci # OHCI PCI->USB interface device ehci # EHCI PCI->USB interface (USB 2.0) device usb # USB Bus (required) device ural # Ralink Technology RT2500USB wireless NICs But don't see a ural device getting created. It's hard to tell from the package, but I suspect it's a version problem. There's a small sticker on the bottom of the box that has "00173FAFD030 ver. 4000" printed on it. But the part number just says FD7050. Any help would be appreciated. thanks... don -- Don Hinton <hintonda at gmail dot com>
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