Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:36:11 +0100 From: Odd-Jarle Kristoffersen <gamuso@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: iBook G3/800 Airport wireless support? Message-ID: <3BD09A38-2C1F-4713-86A7-E8E86D6AA5C8@gmail.com>
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I received a tip to post my question to this mailing list, so here we go. I have an iBook G3/800 dual-USB which I have installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE onto. However I am unable to find the wireless network card. This is a basic Airport card connected to the original pccard / PCMCIA slot, not the Extreme edition. The card works well with Mac OS X 10.4. I've tried the bwi driver but no card shows up. Added the following to /boot/loader.conf if_bwi_load="YES" wlan_load="YES" wlan_wep_load="YES" wlan_ccmp_load="YES" wlan_tkip_load="YES" wlan_amrr_load="YES" Then I also tried the instructions in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html but no wireless adapter shows up in dmesg Googling a bit I find some references to if_wi and a "man if_wi" seems promising since I don't have the Express card, but just the PCMCIA AirPort card which I understand is a rebranded Lucent card or something. However I have no if_wi.ko module. Does the powerpc branch support PCMCIA/PCCARD at all? Is the if_wi replaced by if_bwi with no support for the "simple" Airport card? pciconf -lv does not show any network devices except for the built-in ethernet port (UniNorth/Pangea GMAC (Sun GEM). Thanks for any input on the matter.home | help
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