Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:04:47 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jay@codegurus.org Subject: Re: OvisLink Wireless Message-ID: <200509031104.59199.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4318DA9A.6030300@codegurus.org> References: <4318DA9A.6030300@codegurus.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Saturday 03 September 2005 08:34, Jayton Garnett wrote: > Could anyone tell me if there are plans to introduce the OvisLink > Wireless network cards into FreeBSD? > The one I have uses a Texas Instruments chipset. > http://www.ovislinkcorp.co.uk/wl8000pci.htm > I have done a search on 5.4R but this card is not supported, only two > other OvisLink Cards are supported. > > If you require any technical information about the card I would be more > than willing to dig up some info if it > means the driver will make it into ANY future release of FreeBSD. I don't believe Ti release enough information on their chipsets to allow people to write drivers - certainly the only way I am aware of to use stuff based on their chips is via ndis (which mostly works) I recommend you dig up an Atheros based card since it will almost certainly be supported now or in the very near future, and it supports a company that supplies drivers for FreeBSD/Linux/etc not just Windows. eg http://www.aria.co.uk/wifi/product_info.asp?productid=14956 http://www.multitask-computing.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=275 > Also... would anyone know why my Linksys Router's wireless interface > keeps going down? The > cat5 cable interface still works fine, and I just have too reboot the > router. Broken firmware? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDGP3D5ZPcIHs/zowRAhbUAKCW6q8XYKqi2ZvdTxXizNBd+4Ls0ACeO/Xh 1Q8SH/qA444B/vQtn0V+4FA= =U2aX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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