From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 2 22:10:54 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 555E2E7D for ; Thu, 2 May 2013 22:10:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steven_schneider@incentre.net) Received: from fortimail1.incentre.net (fortimail.incentre.net [206.75.213.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B65917F4 for ; Thu, 2 May 2013 22:10:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gemini.wss-ds.org (adsl207-167-16-46.incentre.net [207.167.16.46]) by fortimail1.incentre.net with ESMTP id r42MAooU010405-r42MAooV010405 for ; Thu, 2 May 2013 16:10:50 -0600 Received: from localhost (1000@localhost [local]); by gemini.wss-ds.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id f4a370b4; for ; Thu, 2 May 2013 16:10:47 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 16:10:47 -0600 From: Steven To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linksys WPC54g NDIS compiles but doesn't work? Message-ID: <20130502221047.GD21736@gemini.wss-ds.org> References: <20130502150200.GC21736@gemini.wss-ds.org> <5182A6F3.8080708@onetel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5182A6F3.8080708@onetel.com> X-No-Alan-Connor: Yes X-Crypto: GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org X-GnuPG-Expiry-Date: 10 October 2009 X-GnuPG-ID: 0x6670E47B X-GnuPG-Fingerprint: F3AD 3894 A39B FC2E 5E59 777B 9721 CA79 6670 E47B X-Operating-System: OpenBSD 5.3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 22:10:54 -0000 * Chris Whitehouse [130502 12:00]: >Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 18:48:35 +0100 >From: Chris Whitehouse >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Linksys WPC54g NDIS compiles but doesn't work? >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111228 > Thunderbird/9.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" >Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >On 02/05/2013 16:02, Steven wrote: >>Hello, >> >>I posted this once already, but I wasn't subscribed at the time and >>I don't think it got posted to the list. Hopefully this isn't a >>dupe. >> >>I've installed FreeBSD 9.1 RELEASE on a family member's laptop, a >>Toshiba Satellite 5100. Said member was using a Linksys WPC54g v.4 >>pcicard for wireless. I downloaded the v.4 drivers for the card >>from the Cisco website and was able to use ndisgen to build a >>wrapper for the driver. > >Hi, > >I have a PCMCIA WPC54g V5 which works with malo(4). It might work >with your V4. You need to download some firmware - see the man page. > >Chris > Thanks, I doubted your suggestion would work seeing that malo(4) is about running cards with the Marvell Libertas chipsets and my card has the chipset below. >>none3@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00291737 chip=0x222017fe >>rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 >>vendor = 'InProComm Inc.' >>device = 'IPN 2220 802.11g' >>class = network >>subclass = ethernet >> I gave it a shot anyhow, but unfortunately it doesn't work. Thanks anyhow, and I'm still open to other suggestions. -- W. Steven Schneider