From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Oct 31 18:51:30 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 BE46C37B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:51:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mraught.homeip.net (pool-151-205-249-57.cap.east.verizon.net [151.205.249.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A0043E75 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mraught@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (music [10.0.0.39]) by mraught.homeip.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA12lNSE024892; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:47:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3DC1F8A7.1060104@acm.org> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 22:44:39 -0500 From: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: richard childers Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Belkin wireless support References: <3DC055C8.4C8A668@pacbell.net> <3DC135F9.23766.1A08D18@localhost> <3DC1A17D.31A180F9@pacbell.net> <3DC1D88E.2643D379@pacbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 richard childers wrote: >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 > > > After the email from Warner I picked up the Belkin. It is a F5D6020 with a free F5D6000. I haven't tried it with the PCI adapter yet, but the pcmcia by itself works in my laptop with FreeBSD 4.7 from last night and the following in my /etc/pccard.conf: card "Belkin" "11Mbps Wireless Notebook Network Adapter" config auto "wi" ? 0x10000 insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop It's not starting the network like my WPC-11 does, but this gets it detected and then I just run my wireless.sh file (by hand) which sets the wireless network parameters. I'm using it now to send this email. I love it when a plan comes together! thanks, -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message