Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 19:00:02 +0200 From: Pascal Giannakakis <capm@gmx.net> To: Morten Rodal <morten@rodal.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with SMC2602W wireless card Message-ID: <3E91AE92.9060003@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20030319161507.GA688@slurp.rodal.no> References: <20030212105522.GB849@postecom.it> <13264.1045048748@www6.gmx.net> <3E4C355C.7090104@ameritech.net> <3E551CF4.9020205@gmx.net> <20030319161507.GA688@slurp.rodal.no>
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Morten Rodal schrieb: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 07:22:44PM +0100, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: > >>David Brodbeck schrieb: >> >>>I'm beginning to suspect there are multiple versions of this card. Some >>>of the websites I've found seem to suggest a card that consists of a >>>removable PCMCIA card in a PCI adapter. What I have doesn't resemble >>>that at all. I've already been burned by the D-Link DWL-650 PCMCIA card >>>I bought for my laptop -- it was on a supported list for Linux, but what >>>I didn't realize is that there are no less than three completely >>>different cards with the same part number! This kind of thing is enough >>>to make you want to give up doing wireless networking under open-source >>>operating systems. >>> >>>I haven't tried Andrea's suggestion yet, but I hope to this weekend. >> >>*sigh* You are right, David. I was in exactly the same situation, I got >>blinded by a D-Link 650+. Of course no trace of the mentioned chip in >>wi(4). After that i tried to find a Linksys card. Well, i found one, but >>- life can be so cruel - it did not have the listed Prism Chip, it was >>either AMD or Admtek. 3rd try: SMC 2602W. >> >>Now i got the SMC 2602W (the package says it is version 2 :/ ) which has >>a Admtek ADM8211 chip on it. BLOODY! I plugged in the card, and hey, of >>course it does NOT work. "pciconf -v -l": >> >>none1@pci0:8:0: class=0x028000 card=0x260210b8 chip=0x82011317 rev=0x11 >>hdr=0x00 >> vendor = 'Admtek Inc' >> class = network >> >>Andrea's tip does not help here, as there is no information in >>pci_vendors what to add exactly in wi_if_pci.c. >> >>Well, who can help now? Where to go next? >> >> > > > Unfortunatly I got this version of the SMC2602W card too :/ Andrea's > tip will not help us here because the wi driver does not understand > the Admtek ADM8211 chip :( What did you guys end up with, did you > buy a new card or what? > > For what it's worth the vendor is 0x1317 and the device is 0x8201 (if > you put those two numbers together you get the chip from pciconf :) > What i did end up? Hehe... Still waiting for the promised land! So i will smack the card in my WinXP, as a temporary solution, until the driver (which is beeing written ATM by some guy for NetBSD) makes it to FreeBSD.
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