From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Oct 31 17:26:38 2002 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 6D24A37B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:26:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD4DE43E4A for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:26:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([66.124.234.233]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0H4V001QFIO9JK@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:26:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:27:42 -0800 From: richard childers Subject: Re: Belkin wireless support To: "M. Warner Losh" , mraught@acm.org, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3DC1D88E.2643D379@pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: <3DC055C8.4C8A668@pacbell.net> <3DC135F9.23766.1A08D18@localhost> <3DC1A17D.31A180F9@pacbell.net> 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 Previously I stated: > It would not surprise me to learn that the Belkin card has a chipset that is > already supported, and it just hasn't been added to the pccard.conf. It occurs to me now that perhaps we (Warner & I) are talking apples and oranges. Perusal of Google's Canadian cache of BSD knowledge (www.google.ca/bsd) suggests that Belkin makes more than one model of PCMCIA card. The card I refer to in my previous postings on this topic is a F5D6020 802.11b-compliant PCMCIA card. Belkin's website describes: - a F5D6000, which is their PCI <->PCMCIA card ... - what appears to be an integrated 802.11b-on-PCI card, B5D-006 ... - a wireless PDA card, F5D6060 ... - their aforemention F5D6020, PCMCIA card ... - another PCI-based ('integrated') wireless card, F5D6001 ... - and at least three other wireless access point products that I noticed. freebsd.org's release note for FreeBSD 4.6 mention that a Belkin F5U011 and F5U111 are supported; these are USB-based cards and would for that reason be likely to be included amongst the set of devices associated with laptops. I'm guessing their 'integrated' PCI-based products work great with FreeBSD. If anyone has an entry for a Belkin F5D6020 PCMCIA-based 802.11b wireless access card or knowledge regarding other cards it emulates, feel free to share; otherwise, as far as I know, that particular card does not at this time work with FreeBSD 4.6. -- richard > > > A terse 'It works' doesn't help anyone. > > -- richard > > nadas@torrentnet.com wrote: > > > hi warner, > > > > hmmm. i can report that the belkin works for me in its pci-pcmcia card in a > > 4.6 stable system. the pcmcia card seemed to behave the same as my other card > > in a laptop, but i lack the necessary infrastructure to actually test that > > setup. i did have to clone the smc pccard entry and put in the belkin strings. > > > > -steve > > > > On 30 Oct 2002 at 21:56, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > > > In message: <3DC055C8.4C8A668@pacbell.net> > > > richard childers writes: > > > : Summary: no, Belkins don't work under FreeBSD. > > > > > > Yes, they do, at least not in the PCMCIA<->PCI adapter. I've used > > > these in 'connectathons' in the past. > > > > > > : Caveat: Belkin's PCI<->PCMCIA converters *do* have a chipset that is > > > : recognized by FreeBSD, and it mistakenly thinks it's found a card, but it : > > > hasn't and it doesn't work. > > > > > > When I tested it, it worked for me. Maybe I should go to office-max > > > and find out why it doesn't work for you. > > > > > > Warner > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > > > > > > Stephen Nadas Ericsson IPI > > nadas@torrentnet.com 920 Main Campus Dr. > > Voice: +1-919-472-9935 Fax: x/9999 Suite 500 > > Mobile: +1-919-522-0991 ECN: 802 29935 Raleigh, NC 27606 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > -- > > Richard A Childers/KG6HAC -- Senor UNIX System & Network Administrator > "Dont forget nothing." Maj Rogers, standing orders, 1st Ranger Bn, 1759 -- Richard A Childers/KG6HAC -- Senor UNIX System & Network Administrator "Dont forget nothing." Maj Rogers, standing orders, 1st Ranger Bn, 1759 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message