From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Aug 8 19:25:30 2002 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 4537237B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 19:25:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0C543E3B for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 19:25:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g792PH9R087995; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:25:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 20:25:11 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020808.202511.73222286.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 From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3D52CA83.4BB71351@pacbell.net> References: <3D52BD79.3040504@fid4.com> <3D52CA83.4BB71351@pacbell.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message: <3D52CA83.4BB71351@pacbell.net> richard childers 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message