Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:42:04 -0800 From: Lopaka Delp <lopaka@ic.ucsb.edu> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, shazeja@cs.vu.nl, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI 802.11b recommendations? Message-ID: <3C50A9DC.7000508@ic.ucsb.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0201241553580.5643-100000@sloep41.cs.vu.nl> <20020124.165332.53441460.imp@village.org> <20020124160808.A5572@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:53:32PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>
>>: Netgear Wireless PCI MA301GE (the cheapest at EUR 59)
>>
>>Are you sure you get a netcard with that :-)
>>
>
> You don't. There is another cheap option which should be available
> soon. The Linksys PCI cards don't work at this point, but there should
> be driver modifications soon for them and other Prism 2.5s. The neat
> thing about the Linksys is that under the shielding, it's actually a
> mini-PCI adaptor.
>
> -- Brooks
>
>
I actually got the Linksys WPC11 and WDT11 to work with 4.5-RC2 and
4.4-RELEASE. It was a pain, but it works. I had to do the following
changes to the if_wi.c file:
# cd /usr/src/sys/i386/isa
# diff if_wi.c.orig if_wi.c
214a215
> {0x16ab, 0x1102, "Linksys WDT11 PCI IEEE 802.11b"},
1954c1955
< 0, ~0, 1, RF_ACTIVE);
---
> 0, ~0, 1, RF_SHAREABLE|RF_ACTIVE);
It works for me, i hope it works for you.
--> Lopaka
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