Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 16:53:00 -0400 From: Mike B <chops@cinci.rr.com> To: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WLAN w/ RealTek chips? Message-ID: <3EB9722C.8060005@cinci.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20030507215242.V26888@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> References: <20030507215242.V26888@shell.gsinet.sittig.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I would like to know if they plan to support this chipset in the future as well, since I recently bought one. It works well in windows, seems to be a quality piece. Gerhard Sittig wrote: >Browsing through the newly released German c't magazine I noticed >a rather cheap offer for PCMCIA WLAN cards (EUR 25,-). The "spec" >in the commercial and on the website reads like a generic WiFi >product (802.11b, 2.4GHz, 128bit WEP, 1/2/5.5/11 MBit). But the >"RealTek chipset" mentioned makes me stop and wonder. > >What are the chances of FreeBSD support for these cards? > >`grep -r -i realtek src/share/man/man4` in a -CURRENT sandbox >(cvs up'ed last Thursday) only pointed to the ethernet drivers >(RealTek 8029 in ed.4, RTL 8002 in rdp.4, and RealTek 8129/8139 >and MPX5030 clones in rl.4). `grep -r -i realtek src/sys/dev` >only hits on ed/if_ed_pci.c (RTL8029), mii/miidevs (PHYs), >mii/rlphy.c (the RealTek PHY), sound/pcm/ac97.c (huh, RealTek >produces AC'97 codecs?), and usb/if_axe.c (USB ethernet). > >Reading the wlan driver manpages does not hint me any further. >FYI, here are the revisions of the manpages I read: >$FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/an.4,v 1.17 2003/02/24 02:20:20 trhodes Exp $ >$FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/awi.4,v 1.12 2003/02/15 17:12:53 trhodes Exp $ >$FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/wi.4,v 1.42 2003/04/10 17:04:03 shiba Exp $ >$FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ray.4,v 1.9 2002/01/21 12:36:12 mpp Exp $ > > >For those interested: visit http://www.innet24.de/ and follow >the Netzwerk -> Wireless -> "ALL0182 Wireless PCMCIA Adapter" >route. Yes, ALLNET is a local OEM vendor, so the label doesn't >mean too much. But I'm quite satisfied with what I've seen from >them so far (NICs and switches). And I still some kind of hope >that the "RealTek" is just a typo -- but the price is not the >same as for Prism2/2.5/3 cards so this could/must really be some >newer/cheaper/different chipset. Hmmm ... > > >BTW do I not know how to read the pile of words at the "ALL0272 >Wireless 54 Mbit PCMCIA Adapter" description (54MBit/s with >Intersil chips?). And the "ALL0192 Wireless PCMCIA Adapter >V.3.0" seems to be the Prism3 card. http://www.allnet.de/ isn't >too informative either. > > >virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 >Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net > >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3EB9722C.8060005>