From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 7 01:21:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99F016A4CE for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 01:21:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47B3C43D1D for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 01:21:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 53582 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2004 09:21:38 -0000 Received: from niwun.pair.com (HELO localhost) (209.68.2.70) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 7 Feb 2004 09:21:38 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 209.68.2.70 Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 03:21:37 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: Brett Glass In-Reply-To: <200402051743.KAA25020@lariat.org> Message-ID: <20040207032053.K39637@odysseus.silby.com> References: <200402051743.KAA25020@lariat.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for USB Wi-Fi adapters? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 09:21:39 -0000 On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Brett Glass wrote: > What is the state of support for USB Wi-Fi adapters in FreeBSD? > Several clients have asked me if they can use these adapters on > their BSD servers, but so far I can't find one that FreeBSD > recognizes. I have one here that's based on the Atmel chipset; > it says that it's made by Askey Computers and that its device > ID is 0x123. There's a Prism-family Wi-Fi radio in there, so > it may be that it's just a matter of glue to get the existing > Prism driver to work with it. Any ideas? > > --Brett Glass Apparently OpenBSD has support for the USB Prism devices now, but it has not been ported over here yet. I'm not aware of anyone working on doing so either at this point in time. Mike "Silby" Silbersack