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Date:      Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:36:11 +0100
From:      Odd-Jarle Kristoffersen <gamuso@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   iBook G3/800 Airport wireless support?
Message-ID:  <3BD09A38-2C1F-4713-86A7-E8E86D6AA5C8@gmail.com>

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I received a tip to post my question to this mailing list, so here we =
go.

I have an iBook G3/800 dual-USB which I have installed FreeBSD =
9.0-RELEASE onto. However I am unable to find the wireless network card. =
This is a basic Airport card connected to the original pccard / PCMCIA =
slot, not the Extreme edition. The card works well with Mac OS X 10.4.

I've tried the bwi driver but no card shows up.

Added the following to /boot/loader.conf

if_bwi_load=3D"YES"
wlan_load=3D"YES"
wlan_wep_load=3D"YES"
wlan_ccmp_load=3D"YES"
wlan_tkip_load=3D"YES"
wlan_amrr_load=3D"YES"

Then I also tried the instructions in the handbook

=
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless=
.html

but no wireless adapter shows up in dmesg

Googling a bit I find some references to if_wi and a "man if_wi" seems =
promising since I don't have the Express card, but just the PCMCIA =
AirPort card which I understand is a rebranded Lucent card or something.

However I have no if_wi.ko module. Does the powerpc branch support =
PCMCIA/PCCARD at all? Is the if_wi replaced by if_bwi with no support =
for the "simple" Airport card?

pciconf -lv does not show any network devices except for the built-in =
ethernet port (UniNorth/Pangea GMAC (Sun GEM).=20

Thanks for any input on the matter.




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