Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:22:44 +0100 From: Pascal Giannakakis <capm@gmx.net> To: David Brodbeck <dbrodbeck@ameritech.net> Cc: Andrea Franceschini <andrea.franceschini@postecom.it>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with SMC2602W wireless card Message-ID: <3E551CF4.9020205@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <3E4C355C.7090104@ameritech.net> References: <20030212105522.GB849@postecom.it> <13264.1045048748@www6.gmx.net> <3E4C355C.7090104@ameritech.net>
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David Brodbeck schrieb:
> Pascal Giannakakis wrote:
>
>> ARRRRRRGH!!! FFS!!! I ordered 2 of these, based on availability and the
>> list, and now i read i might be unsupported! >:( Could NE1 please
>> confirm this card is
>> running under FreeBSD 5.0?
>
>
> I'm beginning to suspect there are multiple versions of this card. Some
> of the websites I've found seem to suggest a card that consists of a
> removable PCMCIA card in a PCI adapter. What I have doesn't resemble
> that at all. I've already been burned by the D-Link DWL-650 PCMCIA card
> I bought for my laptop -- it was on a supported list for Linux, but what
> I didn't realize is that there are no less than three completely
> different cards with the same part number! This kind of thing is enough
> to make you want to give up doing wireless networking under open-source
> operating systems.
>
> I haven't tried Andrea's suggestion yet, but I hope to this weekend.
*sigh* You are right, David. I was in exactly the same situation, I got
blinded by a D-Link 650+. Of course no trace of the mentioned chip in
wi(4). After that i tried to find a Linksys card. Well, i found one, but
- life can be so cruel - it did not have the listed Prism Chip, it was
either AMD or Admtek. 3rd try: SMC 2602W.
Now i got the SMC 2602W (the package says it is version 2 :/ ) which has
a Admtek ADM8211 chip on it. BLOODY! I plugged in the card, and hey, of
course it does NOT work. "pciconf -v -l":
none1@pci0:8:0: class=0x028000 card=0x260210b8 chip=0x82011317 rev=0x11
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Admtek Inc'
class = network
Andrea's tip does not help here, as there is no information in
pci_vendors what to add exactly in wi_if_pci.c.
Well, who can help now? Where to go next?
PS: David, the next try for me would be MA301 from Netgear. What's
yours? Gee, somtimes i am surprised how patient I am!
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