From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 3 01:35:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F2A16A41F for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 01:35:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A54F743D46 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 01:35:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp200-227.lns1.adl4.internode.on.net [203.122.200.227]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j831Z9AH091937 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:05:14 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jay@codegurus.org Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:04:47 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <4318DA9A.6030300@codegurus.org> In-Reply-To: <4318DA9A.6030300@codegurus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1730358.SZ1VszJoyD"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509031104.59199.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Subject: Re: OvisLink Wireless X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 01:35:32 -0000 --nextPart1730358.SZ1VszJoyD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 people to write drivers - certainly the only way I am aware of to use stuff= =20 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=20 supported now or in the very near future, and it supports a company that=20 supplies drivers for FreeBSD/Linux/etc not just Windows. eg http://www.aria.co.uk/wifi/product_info.asp?productid=3D14956 http://www.multitask-computing.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id= =3D275 > 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? =2D-=20 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 --nextPart1730358.SZ1VszJoyD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDGP3D5ZPcIHs/zowRAhbUAKCW6q8XYKqi2ZvdTxXizNBd+4Ls0ACeO/Xh 1Q8SH/qA444B/vQtn0V+4FA= =U2aX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1730358.SZ1VszJoyD--