Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:03:18 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, me@janh.de Subject: Re: LevelOne WPC-0301 11g Wireless CardBus Message-ID: <200810312203.m9VM3Iff060907@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <490A1F15.5060008@janh.de>
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Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > Oliver wrote: > > I bought a LevelOne WPC-0301 11g Wireless CardBus Adapter > > today. According to the box it is "v6". The ral(4) man- > > page mentions only v2, but that one is ancient and can't > > be bought anymore. > > I do not know about the WPC-0301, but I since I bought a wrong WNC-0301 > (PCI version), I did some research looking at the IDs and additionally > Windows drivers: v.1 is Marvel, v.2 is the old Ralink, v.3 is the never > Ralink, and v.5 (and v.6?) is RealTek. (v.4 does not have a Windows > driver at the LevelOne homepage.) > > BTW: I did summit this info to http://linux-wless.passys.nl/ -- it is a > pretty good overview, especially if you want to check which vendors > switch chipset manufacturers from one revision to the next. > > My guess would be that you are out of luck, if it is not detected at > 7-STABLE. Look at the sys files in the Windows driver, if there is one. > Of course, you can try ndis, but I would not go for it. > > If you shop for a card, most of the 108Mbps are Atheros, which works > better than Ralink in my experience. Since you are from Germany, too: > geizhals.at lists TP-Link TL-WN610G for less than 15 Euros, which has an > Atheros chipset according to the site I mentioned above. If you are > looking on Ebay, I can really recommend Philips SNN6500, which does > a/b/g and the proprietary Atheros stuff (TURBOP, BURST). Thank you for the comments and the URL! Fortunately, the guy at the shop (*) took the card back without asking any questions and replaced it with an Atheros-based 108Mbps card (LeveOne WPC-0300). This card seems to work. I haven't tried to connect to an actual AP yet (will do that on my next trip), but at least the card is detected when plugged in and attaches as ath0, and "list scan" returns some output (probably the APs from neighbors). However, a simple "ifconfig ath0 scan" never terninates. I have to press ^C. Is this normal? Also, my X session froze after the card was plugged in for about 20 minutes (but it was not in use, i.e. not connected to an AP). Removing the card solved it. I hope this was just an accidental hiccup. Best regards Oliver (*) For anybody near Munich, I can recommend the shop "NB Computer" (Schillerstr. near Hbf). Friendly people and good prices. (I'm not in any way associated with them nor benefit from recommending them. Just a happy customer.) -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker" -- Daniel C. Sobral
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