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To: Tomoki Taniguchi <tomoki@netcentral.net>
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Subject: Re: prism2 drivers 
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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:50:34 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:03:54 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Tomoki Taniguchi <tomoki@netcentral.net>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> does anyone know if there is a driver for the prism2 802.11b
> implementation?  From what I can see the Freebsd wi driver is only for the
> wavelan cards...  The openbsd wi driver, which from what I gather was
> ported from the freebsd version, does support prism2 chips.  Any plans to
> back port the code?

The wi driver does support the Prism 2 chip-set, but not all cards that
use that chip use the same support chips and that results in some
glitches on some cards.

I would suggest checking /etc/conf/pccard.conf for a particular
card. If you don't see your card, try it. Use pccardc dumpcis to get
the card's ID tuple and make an entry in /etc/pccard.conf that looks
like the entry for the Lucent card but with the ID text from the
dumpcis substituted. It's pretty obvious once you look at it. Then try
it and see if it works. Be sure that a free IRQ is used by the card.

You may need to use wicontrol to fix-up things like ad-hoc vs. BSS
service.

It will probably work. IF it does not, try posting to
freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org. The people who work this hang out there.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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