Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:55:14 -0700 From: Kendall Shaw <kshaw@kendallshaw.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcmcia wifi adapter that can be purchased? Message-ID: <878vhxylxp.fsf@neti.kendallshaw.com> In-Reply-To: <4F855CC0.4060009@onetel.com> (Chris Whitehouse's message of "Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:28:16 %2B0100") References: <87obqzqyhm.fsf@neti.kendallshaw.com> <4F84AF58.2090306@onetel.com> <878vi3qk4h.fsf@neti.kendallshaw.com> <4F855CC0.4060009@onetel.com>
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Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> writes:
> On 10/04/2012 23:47, Kendall Shaw wrote:
>> Chris Whitehouse<cwhiteh@onetel.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 10/04/2012 18:37, Kendall Shaw wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Do you happen to know of a PCMCIA Type II wireless adapter that is
>>>> currently being sold online that supports WPA under freebsd 9.0?
>>>> Alternately, a USB 1.0 adapter? I would rather keep the USB ports free
>>>> for other uses.
>>>
>>> Linksys WPC54G works with malo driver (check the man page if you get
>>> one) and is available on ebay. I haven't had one in regular use but I
>>> just did a flood ping on 9.0R i386 and it showed less than 1% packet
>>> loss.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>
>> Thanks. Oops... I clicked too soon and bought from Amazon. The bwi/bwn
> Yes looks a bit more expensive there than ebay.
>> man pages say the version 3 of the adapter is supported. Amazon doesn't
>> say what version. Is the malo driver for newer versions of the adapter?
>
> My card is v5 with Marvell Libertas 88W8335 chip.
I got the card and it is working. Thanks everyone!
The card is a Linksys WPC54G v3.1 and I am using the bwn driver. I wish
that it would tell you what version the card is, at least on the box...
I installed bwn_firmware_kmod from ports to set it up.
/boot/loader.conf:
if_bwn_load="YES"
bwn_v4_ucode_load="YES"
/etc/rc.conf:
wlans_bwn0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"
wpa_supplicant_enable="YES"
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
network={
ssid="Error"
proto=WPA
psk="topsecret"
}
Kendall
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