From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 12:00:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF10116A4B3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moutvdom.kundenserver.de (moutvdom.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D14F543FF9 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:00:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from felix@episteme.co.uk) Received: from [212.227.126.224] (helo=mrvdomng.kundenserver.de) by moutvdom.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1ACkhK-0002qP-00 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:00:38 +0200 Received: from [82.32.32.240] (helo=FELIX-MOBLIE.episteme.co.uk) by mrvdomng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1ACkhK-0003Aa-00 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:00:38 +0200 Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.1.20031023194342.01af7638@pop.oneandone.co.uk> X-Sender: pt8071097-3@pop.oneandone.co.uk X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:00:36 +0100 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: Felix Urbanski Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: IBM Wireless NIC Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:00:41 -0000 Hi all, i recently decided to put FreeBSD [5.0-RELEASE] onto my IBM Thinkpad R31, i already have a wireless NIC [D-Link DWL-650+ 22Mbps AirPlus] but unfortunately it uses the TI chip-set and is thus far unsupported buy wi(4) or wl(4) wireless drivers. Now ideally I would like to buy an official IBM PCMCIA wireless NIC [the 31P9101 11a/b/g Wireless CardBus Adapter to be specific] see: http://www5.pc.ibm.com/uk/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/_31P9101?OpenDocument anyway! I can't find any white papers or anything techie about this card in order to determine its chip-set and thus support [or lack of] by FreeBSD. Does it use the same chip-set as the already supported "IBM High Rate Wireless LAN PC Card"? [which is runing on the Mini-PCI bus] Has anyone else tried either of these cards? If so what where the results? Any help would be greatly appreciated as everything else on this machine works so well apart from this - it would be great to get wireless networking up and running too! Regards Felix