Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 20:25:11 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: fscked@pacbell.net Cc: cambria@fid4.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where to find a true PCI->PCMCIA Adapter Message-ID: <20020808.202511.73222286.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <3D52CA83.4BB71351@pacbell.net> References: <3D52BD79.3040504@fid4.com> <3D52CA83.4BB71351@pacbell.net>
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richard childers <fscked@pacbell.net> writes:
: Belkin's PCI->PCMCIA adapter appears to sufficient elements of the wi
: chipset to be recognized as a wi at boot time even with no PCMCIA card
: installed.
Then this is a PLX based card (which is what I recall from the stores).
: The PCMCIA card itself, alas, is not a supported wireless card at this time,
: to the best of my knowledge (this may change in 5.0).
I'm not aware of any belkin pcmcia wireless card that isn't
supported.
: It is my understanding that the bridges are proprietary to their vendors but
: this may only be true on the Windows side of things, where interoperability
: is determined by the manufacturer rather than the chipset.
Not exactly. The PLX bridges are documented and/or trivial to figure
out what the interface to them are. They are just a cost reduced way
of bringing pcmcia cards onto the pci bus when you don't need all that
hot-swap ability :-)
Warner
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