From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 12 17:00:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E03516A4E9 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:00:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jail.idea-anvil.net (idea-anvil.net [63.226.12.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FDD643D2D for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:00:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aksis@idea-anvil.net) Received: from idea-anvil.net (vaio [10.0.0.99]) by jail.idea-anvil.net (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j0CH0qel089028 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:00:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from aksis@idea-anvil.net) From: aksis Organization: idea-anvil.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:00:52 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501121000.52916.aksis@idea-anvil.net> Subject: Re: Linksys WPC11 Wireless Card. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:00:54 -0000 On Tuesday 11 January 2005 08:52 am, Walker, Michael wrote: > Hi > > I apologise for asking this, as I know for a fact this question has been > asked before, however when searching the archives, I am finding conflicting > answers. > I have a Linksys WPC11 Version 4 wireless notebook adapter, and am > wondering if anyone has successfully set this up using FreeBSD 5.3. > I have read that Version 4 of the card uses a different chipset to previous > versions and that this could cause some issues, how true is this? > Also what options do I need to enable in my custom kernel, I read somewhere > in the archives that I also need to disable some items in the kernel as > well, could someone please elaborate? > > Thanks in advance. > > > Mick Walker > NAAFI Finance International > Its working on my 5.3-RELEASE with ndis (aka Project Evil): man ndis [aksis@vaio:~]:$ pciconf -lv ... snip ... ndis0@pci4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00191737 chip=0x818010ec rev=0x20 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8180L IEEE 802.11b Wireless MAC and Baseband Processor' class = network subclass = ethernet [aksis@vaio:~]:$ ifconfig ndis0 ndis0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet a.b.c.d netmask 0x0000000 broadcast 0.0.0.0 inet6 *%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid ME 1:ME channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode ON weptxkey somekey [aksis@vaio:~]:$ ping -c 3 google.com PING google.com (216.239.57.99): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=58.070 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=58.553 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=60.377 ms --- google.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 58.070/59.000/60.377/0.993 ms When you run 2 battelships into each other, they both sink.