From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Nov 23 8:58:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.realtime.net (dragon.realtime.net [205.238.128.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B0C637B416 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 08:58:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from tigerfish2.my.domain ([66.25.208.136]) by dragon.realtime.net ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 10:58:25 -0600 Received: (from brucegb@localhost) by tigerfish2.my.domain (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fANH2KN21925 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 11:02:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brucegb) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 11:02:20 -0600 From: Bruce Burden To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Wireless LAN cards? Message-ID: <20011123110220.O734@tigerfish2.my.domain> References: <86pu69iy4m.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <86pu69iy4m.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>; from freebsd@molemanarmy.com on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 10:23:53AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 10:23:53AM +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > > I've not seen any desktop wireless ethernet cards. What you generally > have to do is buy a pcmcia card and an ISA - PCMCIA converter for the > PC. I have been warned in the past to use ISA and not PCI. I'm not > sure if PCI is supported yet. > I have a PCI based PCMCIA converter in one of my towers. It does work, and is recognised. Unfortunately, the tower is a dual processor box, and that does NOT work with the PCMCIA code. Sigh. That should, however, be fixed in 5.0, whenever that work is completed. The problem with ISA is that ISA slots on new boards are as rare as hens teeth in a mature bird... Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message