From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Apr 24 7:39:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C1137B41C for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:39:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3OEc9H83526; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:38:09 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3OEc8b33258; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:38:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:37:44 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020424.083744.09262940.imp@village.org> To: zedshaw@zedshaw.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB 802.11b SMC 2662W-CA Anyone? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <1019645024.893.6.camel@laptop.killnine.net> References: <1019645024.893.6.camel@laptop.killnine.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message: <1019645024.893.6.camel@laptop.killnine.net> Zed Shaw writes: : I bought a USB Wireless Adapter manufactured by SMC (2662W) and I've : been tinkering with it trying to see if it will work under freebsd. : I've managed to install it and it will turn on the RX light. I am just : running into a couple of problems that are probably really basic: : : 1) Does anyone know what device this might run under? I'm thinking it : will be a /dev/aue device, but I have no idea what the major/minor : number is for that. None at the moment. Its programming interface is very close to that of the wi device, however. : 2) I read somewhere else that there is firmware that needs to be : downloaded into it before it will work? Is this a one time thing, or : everytime thing? No clue. : 3) Any other pointers? Should I even bother? Well, if you are a kernel programmer, you might want to sign intersil's NDA and get the programming guide. There's a section on how the USB device is mapped and how it differs from the pccard mapping. The intersil stuff is on their web site, but I have no URL at the moment. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message