Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 18:18:49 +0200 From: Martin Hasenbein <list-freebsd@lists.42x.org> To: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1-R Support for 802.11b USB stick? usbd sees it as ugen0 Message-ID: <20040602161849.GA34485@bsd.net> In-Reply-To: <86u0xukn8n.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> References: <86u0xukn8n.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>
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On 2 Jun 2004 (17:12:24), Chris Shenton wrote: Hi Chris, > I've got an olde thinkpad and picked up a "Syntax USB-400" 802.11b > interface on a USB stick (heck, it's free after rebate): > > http://www.freeafterrebate.info/article.php?story=20040301213230483 > > When I plug it in, usbd sees it as a generic device: > > ugen0: vendor 0x0967 product 0x0204, rev 1.10/1.32, addr 2 > > This appears to be a prism2 chipset, judging by code found while > googling the hex numbers above -- from linux-wan-ng. maybe you could use this driver: http://vitsch.net/bsd/atuwi/ >From the features list: "A FreeBSD driver for Atmel based USB WLAN adapters. The aim of the project is to get all Atmel at76c503a compatible USB WLAN adapters to work on FreeBSD." "Support for Intersil, RFMD and RFMD2958 radio parts." I'm not sure, if it works, and haven't tried it myself, but you could give it a try. Ciao, -Martin. -- Martin Hasenbein | Volkartstr. 55 | D-80636 Muenchen fon: +49 89 12163761 | fax: +49 89 12163763 | gsm: +49 175 2255715 Unix is simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity --Dennis Ritchie
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