Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 22:44:39 -0500 From: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" <mraught@acm.org> To: richard childers <fscked@pacbell.net> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Belkin wireless support Message-ID: <3DC1F8A7.1060104@acm.org> References: <3DC055C8.4C8A668@pacbell.net> <3DC135F9.23766.1A08D18@localhost> <3DC1A17D.31A180F9@pacbell.net> <3DC1D88E.2643D379@pacbell.net>
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richard childers wrote:
>Previously I stated:
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>>It would not surprise me to learn that the Belkin card has a chipset that is
>>already supported, and it just hasn't been added to the pccard.conf.
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>It occurs to me now that perhaps we (Warner & I) are talking apples and oranges.
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>Perusal of Google's Canadian cache of BSD knowledge (www.google.ca/bsd) suggests that
>Belkin makes more than one model of PCMCIA card.
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>The card I refer to in my previous postings on this topic is a F5D6020
>802.11b-compliant PCMCIA card.
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>Belkin's website describes:
>- a F5D6000, which is their PCI <->PCMCIA card ...
>- what appears to be an integrated 802.11b-on-PCI card, B5D-006 ...
>- a wireless PDA card, F5D6060 ...
>- their aforemention F5D6020, PCMCIA card ...
>- another PCI-based ('integrated') wireless card, F5D6001 ...
>- and at least three other wireless access point products that I noticed.
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>freebsd.org's release note for FreeBSD 4.6 mention that a Belkin F5U011 and F5U111
>are supported; these are USB-based cards and would for that reason be likely to be
>included amongst the set of devices associated with laptops.
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>I'm guessing their 'integrated' PCI-based products work great with FreeBSD.
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>If anyone has an entry for a Belkin F5D6020 PCMCIA-based 802.11b wireless access card
>or knowledge regarding other cards it emulates, feel free to share; otherwise, as far
>as I know, that particular card does not at this time work with FreeBSD 4.6.
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>-- richard
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>>A terse 'It works' doesn't help anyone.
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>>-- richard
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>>nadas@torrentnet.com wrote:
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>>>hi warner,
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>>>hmmm. i can report that the belkin works for me in its pci-pcmcia card in a
>>>4.6 stable system. the pcmcia card seemed to behave the same as my other card
>>>in a laptop, but i lack the necessary infrastructure to actually test that
>>>setup. i did have to clone the smc pccard entry and put in the belkin strings.
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>>>-steve
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>>>On 30 Oct 2002 at 21:56, M. Warner Losh wrote:
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>>>>In message: <3DC055C8.4C8A668@pacbell.net>
>>>> richard childers <fscked@pacbell.net> writes:
>>>>: Summary: no, Belkins don't work under FreeBSD.
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>>>>Yes, they do, at least not in the PCMCIA<->PCI adapter. I've used
>>>>these in 'connectathons' in the past.
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>>>>: Caveat: Belkin's PCI<->PCMCIA converters *do* have a chipset that is
>>>>: recognized by FreeBSD, and it mistakenly thinks it's found a card, but it :
>>>>hasn't and it doesn't work.
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>>>>When I tested it, it worked for me. Maybe I should go to office-max
>>>>and find out why it doesn't work for you.
>>>>
>>>>Warner
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>>--
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>>Richard A Childers/KG6HAC -- Senor UNIX System & Network Administrator
>>"Dont forget nothing." Maj Rogers, standing orders, 1st Ranger Bn, 1759
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>Richard A Childers/KG6HAC -- Senor UNIX System & Network Administrator
>"Dont forget nothing." Maj Rogers, standing orders, 1st Ranger Bn, 1759
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After the email from Warner I picked up the Belkin. It is a F5D6020 with
a free F5D6000. I haven't tried it with the PCI adapter yet, but the
pcmcia by itself works in my laptop with FreeBSD 4.7 from last night and
the following in my /etc/pccard.conf:
card "Belkin" "11Mbps Wireless Notebook Network Adapter"
config auto "wi" ? 0x10000
insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
It's not starting the network like my WPC-11 does, but this gets it
detected and then I just run my wireless.sh file (by hand) which sets
the wireless network parameters. I'm using it now to send this email. I
love it when a plan comes together!
thanks,
-mark
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