From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 19:36:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF46737B401 for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 19:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.zen.co.uk (parmenides.zen.co.uk [212.23.8.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D707543FB1 for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 19:36:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony@ubik.demon.co.uk) Received: (qmail 19458 invoked from network); 8 May 2003 02:36:23 -0000 Received: from protagoras.zen.co.uk (212.23.8.61) by parmenides.zen.co.uk with QMQP; 8 May 2003 02:36:23 -0000 Received: from dsl-217-155-183-134.zen.co.uk (HELO ubik.demon.co.uk) (217.155.183.134) by protagoras.zen.co.uk with SMTP; 8 May 2003 02:36:23 -0000 X-Zen-Trace: 217.155.183.134 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 02:36:52 +0000 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: Anthony Naggs References: <20030507215242.V26888@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> In-Reply-To: <20030507215242.V26888@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Subject: Re: WLAN w/ RealTek chips? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 02:36:26 -0000 In article <20030507215242.V26888@shell.gsinet.sittig.org>, Gerhard Sittig writes >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. The RealTek RTL8180 Wireless LAN part was launched at the end of last year/early this year. It looks like this is one of the first products to use the chip. >What are the chances of FreeBSD support for these cards? It used to be easy to get RealTek datasheets, but there seem to be none on their website now. They do at least have source code for a Linux driver on their web site, so there is some 'reference' material to work from. Other Taiwanese companies are rushing to bring out WLAN chipsets too. For instance the AdmTek ADM8211, SiS SiS160 & Inprocomm IPN2120. I can't see either datasheets or example driver source code for any of these. [snip] >For those interested: visit http://www.innet24.de/ and follow >the Netzwerk -> Wireless -> "ALL0182 Wireless PCMCIA Adapter" >route. ... > >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?). ... Looks like it uses Intersil (Prism) 802.11g (54Mb/s) chipset, and mentions compatibility with 802.11b (11Mb/s) networks. ttfn -- Tony Naggs