Date: 27 Jul 2002 17:15:43 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Hudson Lee <hudlee@vineyard.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: an driver with cisco aironet mini-pci 350 Message-ID: <1027804543.48261.19.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020727110429.A13939@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20020726190022.GA48127@harlem.foo.bar> <20020726125902.A27450@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20020727164749.GA48515@harlem.foo.bar> <20020727110429.A13939@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 14:04, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 12:47:49PM -0400, Hudson Lee wrote: > > What I should have done before: opened up the laptop to get specific > > info on the card. > > > > It is the Cisco Aironet MPI350 > > Full Model #: AIR-MPI350-U58H004 > > FCC ID: MCL U58H004 > > > > The grant of equipment authorization is issued to AMBIT microsystems, > > I don't know what AMBIT is but the card is definitly a cisco card. > > > > After looking on the fcc's website I noticed that the grant date for > > the card was 04/18/2002. I think I understand why the driver doesn't > > work and why no one has heard of the card now. > > > > So how does someone who can't fix it themselves go about asking > > (begging) others to add support? > > The first step is probably getting a card into someone's hands. I'd say > ambrisko@ambrisko.com would the best choice followed by Warner. What > kind of laptop is this? It might be possiable for a sufficently > motivated person to order one of these cards as spairs from the > manufacture. > > > I don't know how different the mini-pci card is from the pci and > > pcmcia versions that work with the an driver. It could (In my dreams) > > be a simple matter of changing a few lines of code. Or the driver > > might need major changes. It's a new card and kind of obscure so that > > means the right person (driver author or someone smart) probably > > doesn't have one laying around to play with. This certanly makes > > supporting it harder... > > I bet this is entierly new silicon or at least something we don't > support yet. It's remotly possiable they use a PLX chip, but that > doesn't seem likely, especialy since it's got a brand new FCC ID. > I've put in a query to our Cisco rep about them, but there's a good > chance the answer won't be all the useful. Let me know what you need, and I'll see what documentation I can provide. Joe > > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA9Qw1/b2iPiv4Uz4cRAk1yAKCOZmNS3MH5SRC0B17K07FY9s795gCgpaJ3 7akJ9LBVX7RSDPf1xmWKq0M= =kEpl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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