From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 15 16:55:22 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B69106564A for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:55:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kshaw@kendallshaw.com) Received: from qmta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A34C8FC0C for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:55:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.27]) by qmta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id yGua1i0040b6N64AFGvGJi; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:55:16 +0000 Received: from neti ([67.161.38.155]) by omta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id yGvE1i02Q3LqvbX8PGvFJz; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:55:15 +0000 Received: by neti (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B634F6A18A8; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:55:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Kendall Shaw To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <87obqzqyhm.fsf@neti.kendallshaw.com> <4F84AF58.2090306@onetel.com> <878vi3qk4h.fsf@neti.kendallshaw.com> <4F855CC0.4060009@onetel.com> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:55:14 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4F855CC0.4060009@onetel.com> (Chris Whitehouse's message of "Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:28:16 +0100") Message-ID: <878vhxylxp.fsf@neti.kendallshaw.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: pcmcia wifi adapter that can be purchased? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:55:22 -0000 Chris Whitehouse writes: > On 10/04/2012 23:47, Kendall Shaw wrote: >> Chris Whitehouse 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