From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 19:56:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD639106566B for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:56:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 735EB8FC13 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:56:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaai12 with SMTP id i12so354498eaa.13 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:56:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.22.129 with SMTP id n1mr292263ebb.12.1326484578328; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:56:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from amy.lab.techwires.net (dslb-088-067-220-217.pools.arcor-ip.net. [88.67.220.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u53sm33573353eeu.6.2012.01.13.11.56.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:56:17 -0800 (PST) Sender: Bernhard Schmidt From: Bernhard Schmidt To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:56:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.0-PRERELEASE; KDE/4.7.3; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201201132056.23627.bschmidt@freebsd.org> Cc: Subject: Re: NetGear WG511T and WPA support on FreeBSD 8.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:56:19 -0000 On Friday 13 January 2012 16:57:37 _ wrote: > Hi, > > By its description, this mailing list seems to be rather technical in > nature and my question is - depending > on how one sees it - quasi technical or at least too specific as I think > for the standard user mailing list, so > I'm just giving it a try here... > > Since I've run into problems getting an ndisgen generated driver for my > Realtek RTL8185 54M to work on > my FreeBSD 8.2 (i386) system - kldload on the driver generates a permanent > kernel crash-, I am currently > thinking about buying the NetGear WG511T PCMCIA bus driven card. > > I would like to ask if there are any users on this list that make use of > this card and that can confirm whether > or not this cards works fine alongside with WPA on 8.2 or 9.0 if I decide > to upgrade? > > I am aware of the supported hardware list. The card in discussion is not > listed as supported. > However, this could still be the case, since I read in an older 7.0 related > thread > http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1424 that it did work, at > least at one point in time. Afaik the WG511T is supported by ath(4) (it's at least mentioned in the man page) so I think it should work pretty good even without ndis. Btw, you should give 9.0 a shot with ndis, there have been a lot changes there, several of them fixing panics. -- Bernhard