Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:03:49 -0500 From: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> To: Odd-Jarle Kristoffersen <gamuso@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: iBook G3/800 Airport wireless support? Message-ID: <CAHSQbTBGSqZ0%2BNAe_x-kNAuHq2-WqMutyxn6R_4ZaDUqYf2V8A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3BD09A38-2C1F-4713-86A7-E8E86D6AA5C8@gmail.com> References: <3BD09A38-2C1F-4713-86A7-E8E86D6AA5C8@gmail.com>
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(writing from my phone, as I'm in the process of moving) The original Airport card in your iBook uses the if_wi driver. However there are a couple problems right now. The most obvious is that there is currently no attachment for the driver for the Macio bus. You can search this list archives for a patch I made in 2011, but the other problem that you will run into is the if_wi driver is just broken. There are discussions about this on FreeBSD-wireless that you can search for. -Justin On Jan 3, 2013 4:36 AM, "Odd-Jarle Kristoffersen" <gamuso@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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