From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 18:02:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D2C116A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:02:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 677D743D3F for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:02:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerry@thehutt.org) Received: from risus.thehutt.org (pcp08562308pcs.alxndr01.va.comcast.net[68.86.31.94]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004011302021601500b5ep2e>; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:02:16 +0000 Received: from jerry by risus.thehutt.org with local (Exim 4.22) id 1AgDsV-0002Cn-J3; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 21:01:59 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 21:01:59 -0500 From: Jerry A! To: Kevin Oberman Message-ID: <20040113020159.GA8426@risus.thehutt.org> References: <20040112120000.B5579@eskimo.eskimo.com> <20040112212211.D46E75D07@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040112212211.D46E75D07@ptavv.es.net> Organization: Broken Toys Unlimited User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5i Sender: Jerry A! cc: Ross Lippert cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wirelss card & cardbus X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:02:17 -0000 On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:22:11PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: : You can always run 5.2, just released a few minutes ago. It supports : CardBus and many 'g' cards. For non-SMP systems, it's really pretty : solid. : : There are many 16-bit 802.11b cards that will work fine with V4, but : it's often hard to get the right one as manufacturers seem to change the : chip used without changing the model number and often not even showing a : revision number. My recommendation for what's currently on the market is the Microsoft MN-520. It's the only pcmcia card I've found that's also prism2.5. : Any card with a Intersil Prism chip should work. I've been running V5 on : my laptop for some time and I'm not too sure of the state of 'G' support : in STABLE. If the ath driver is in STABLE, Atheros chips should : work. Most 'B' Cisco cards are also supported. Watch out. I banged my head into a brick wall w/some of the newer prism3 cards--specifically the D-Link 650. The newest ones are indeed prism3. Unfortunately, they won't work b/c they upload the code via serial eeprom (which FreeBSD currently doesn't support). --Jerry -- "Barbie would also be tired of Microsoft's licensing bullshit." -- Maury Cesterino, Chief Software Architect, Mattel, Inc.