From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 07:07:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 586FC37B401 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 07:07:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hexagon.stack.nl (hexagon.stack.nl [131.155.140.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A609743F93 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 07:07:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jilles@stack.nl) Received: by hexagon.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id AFFD61C66; Sat, 17 May 2003 16:07:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from toad.stack.nl (toad.stack.nl [2001:610:1108:5010::135]) by hexagon.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAEB51C5B for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 16:07:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by toad.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 1677) id 848429A; Sat, 17 May 2003 16:07:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 16:07:02 +0200 From: Jilles Tjoelker To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030517140702.GB34052@stack.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.4 required=5.0 tests=USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: USB wireless network adapters X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 14:07:09 -0000 Hello, I have a laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens C6175) dual-booting Windows 98SE and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE and I would like to do wireless networking (802.11b) with it. The first thing I tried was a cardbus pccard from Sitecom, which uses the Prism2.5 chipset and should be supported by the wi(4) driver. However, I'm having trouble with pccard - FreeBSD says my pcic is "16-bit", and the card works under neither OS. Another possibility is a USB adapter from Sitecom. It works under Linux (Mandrake 9.1) with the prism2_usb module on another machine (it has to be removed and reinserted after the driver is loaded, though) and under Windows 98SE on the laptop. I have read about a uwi driver that supported Prism2 USB devices, but I could not find it. Does anyone have a pointer? (If it only works under -CURRENT, I will have to wait some time. I don't have the disk space to install both 4.x and 5.x and I want to have a "known good" version available for some time. -- Jilles Tjoelker