From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed May 23 14:26:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from master.rosenberry.org (sub20-218.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.20.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 346C737B42C for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 14:26:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eric@rosenberry.org) Received: from ericrmobl (rosenbee-2.RCN.ORST.EDU [128.193.238.247]) by master.rosenberry.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id org for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 14:29:24 -0700 From: "Eric Rosenberry" To: Subject: Linksys Wireless Cards (WPC11) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 14:23:49 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal 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 So I finally got around to buying myself an 802.11b wireless setup. Linksys just released their new base station, which includes a wireless bridge, a 4-port 100-megabit switch and a 10-megabit port to hook it to a cable modem/dsl line (it has a NAT built in to it) all for $220! They also dropped the price on the PCMCIA cards to $105 (at buy.com)!!! Anyway, on to my question: Do these cards work in freebsd? The box says they use the Intersil HFA3841/HFA3842 chip sets. A quick search of the freebsd docs and mailing lists turned up no hits on linksys wireless cards. I don't suppose I am lucky enough for them to use the same drivers as the aironet cards or the lucent ones? If there are no current drivers for them I would love to see freebsd pick up support for them as they are the lowest price somewhat name brand cards on the market! I have been very happy with Linksys products in the past, very simple yet elegant design in the hardware and the software. Any help/suggestions are appreciated! P.S. For those of you that are interested here are the links to the specs for the cards and base station. Note that you could also buy a PCI adaptor to use one of the PCMCIA cards in a desktop FreeBSD machine and use it as your router instead of buying the base station. The base station model is BEFW11S4 (price at buy.com $219.95 including free shipping) http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=173&grid=19 http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10273558&loc=273 The PCMCIA wireless card model is WPC11 (price at buy.com $104.95) http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=156&grid=19 http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?loc=101&sku=10259367 P.P.S I just updated the firmware in my base station and it now seems it will do 128 bit encryption (which is not an advertised feature!). -Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message