Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 10:49:45 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: cbiffle@safety.net Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB wireless network adapters Message-ID: <20030517.104945.22502008.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200305170914.44778.cbiffle@safety.net> References: <20030517140702.GB34052@stack.nl> <200305170914.44778.cbiffle@safety.net>
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"Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle@safety.net> writes:
: On Saturday 17 May 2003 07:07 am, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
: > 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.
OLDCARD should deal with pcic until I can get the 16-bit legacy
support into 'newcard'
: Unfortunately, 32-bit PCMCIA support -- that is, Cardbus -- isn't available
: until 5.0. I have little experience with the USB adapters, but you do have
: other options, namely finding a 16-bit wireless card. Most of the Orinoco
: cards I've come across have been 16-bit.
All the PC Cards supported by wi are 16-bit.
Warner
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