From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 10 16:48:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54C037B401 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:48:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts14.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4640543F93 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:48:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from gabby.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.176.5]) by tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20030311004827.EPXP22797.tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca>; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:48:27 -0500 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by gabby.gsicomp.on.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h2B0jNjC001965; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:45:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <009201c2e767$ced839c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Aaron Benner" , References: <3E6CED79.7030202@rocky.edu> Subject: Re: Linksys WMP11, ca. 2003. Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:47:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Benner" To: Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 2:54 PM Subject: Linksys WMP11, ca. 2003. > I'm trying to coerce a new Linksys WMP11 802.11b card into working on a > FreeBSD install of 4.7-RELEASE. In looking through the freebsd-mobile > lists I've seen some discussion on this (from around this time last > year), but all of the resources included in that discussion > (particularly the patches to the wi driver) are out of sync with the > kernel sources I've got. I just cvsup'd 4.x-STABLE and -current and > didn't manage to find either the vendor ID or device ID reported in > dmesg in the driver code there. I was wondering if anyone out there > could give me an update on support for this wireless card? The posts > from freebsd-mobile > (http://www.riverside.org/archive/html/freebsd-mobile/2002-02/msg00038.html) > that were most promising mentioned commiting the patches to -current, > but I don't see any evidence of that in my kernel sources. > > To top off my confusion when I boot I'm getting different dev/vendor > id's from the card than are mentioned in the post referenced above. > > Here's my dmesg output: > > pcib0: on motherboard > pci0: on pcib0 > pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 > pci1: on pcib1 > pci1: at 0.0 irq 11 > pcib2: at device 30.0 on pci0 > pci3: on pcib2 > pci3: (vendor=0x14e4, dev=0x4301) at 2.0 irq 11 > xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xac00-0xac7f mem > 0xdfefdf80-0xdfefdfff irq 10 > at device 5.0 on pci3 > xl0: Ethernet address: 00:01:03:de:12:db > miibus0: on xl0 > ukphy0: on miibus0 > ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > > The linksys WMP11 is listed as pci3. Note that the vendor/dev ids are > different from those listed in the patch posted by Thomas Skibo > to freebsd-mobile (as referenced above) which shows > the device as: > > + {0x1260, 0x3873, WI_BUS_PCI_NATIVE, "Linksys WMP11 PCI Prism2.5"}, > > So, the qeustion is, can I make this (actually these 10) cards work with > FreeBSD? Any help or pointers on this would be greatly appreciated. > > --Aaron Looking up your PCI IDs (http://www.yourvote.com/pci), I see that the unknown device on pci3 is really a Broadcom IEEE 802.11b WLAN client chipset. Not sure which device driver should be extended to support this chipset. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message