Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:56:23 +0100 From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NetGear WG511T and WPA support on FreeBSD 8.2 Message-ID: <201201132056.23627.bschmidt@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAKnE0ZsOgqAwGok_zipDYVacMtq6gC8uh5=cBBrGWaSUuk%2BUYQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKnE0ZsOgqAwGok_zipDYVacMtq6gC8uh5=cBBrGWaSUuk%2BUYQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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