From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 16 18:25:50 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE4416A421 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:25:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hintonda@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3266013C46A for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:25:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hintonda@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so240519rvb for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:25:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:date:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer; b=cZ8myCnctEBYkMWteBvbau2ygaQ6ed31t41E0j/QwwyUdP8+H2GyfptwyHeut7xUn0MNt+jO5t38yL2XelUlr5srJDogmHuZ5nWDYEbenr9vs5FiTtPvyQmyO75BZ09TbH7cqsRUexg3yxGC8bi0qFqNtf9etK/ezK2MJ9AR7K8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:date:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer; b=MASYOv9ffqWGGylZv/K7ZJh1CdmpI6CzFrqJkH5Cm/0milBy+7r12EBaMZ6MDf2+c4Alp+v9C8eZzqLDs/HNpzRt/kMY9+pUNOPajEk+hEe5ufeb82lPDwEzSgYid+n7oZUmq6uZ4XQMJv4lQEgJvl3jqTjArDuIwkpH1W05Ayg= Received: by 10.141.21.19 with SMTP id y19mr853377rvi.1187288749784; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.my.domain ( [69.245.3.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q34sm850385wrq.2007.08.16.11.25.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:25:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Hinton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18116.38566.699817.525560@localhost.my.domain> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:25:42 +0000 To: Adam J Richardson In-Reply-To: <46BC5B1F.7030208@crackmonkey.us> References: <18107.29558.834358.66922@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <46BC5B1F.7030208@crackmonkey.us> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.1 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cheap (supported) wifi card X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:25:50 -0000 Hi Adam: Adam J Richardson writes: > Don Hinton wrote: > > Could someone recommend a good (and > > cheap) one that's includes a/b/g*/n and is supported, either natively > > or via ndis? > > Hi Don, > > I can heartily recommend any card based on the TNET1130 chipset. They > work very well with ndisgen. Examples include the Add-on Tech GWP-100 > and the Belkin F5D7 series, such as the F5D7051 USB key or the F5D7000 > cardbus card. They're all cheap. They do "a", "b" and "g". I'm not sure > about "n", though. I picked up a Belkin F5D7050, but can seem to figure out how to get it to work. I'm obviously missing something. $ dmesg ugen0: on uhub6 $ uname -a FreeBSD localhost 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #5: Mon Aug 13 16:23:35 UTC 2007 root@localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HP_SMP i386 I've compiled the following in my kernel, per man ural: device wlan # 802.11 support device wlan_amrr # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm device uhci # UHCI PCI->USB interface device ohci # OHCI PCI->USB interface device ehci # EHCI PCI->USB interface (USB 2.0) device usb # USB Bus (required) device ural # Ralink Technology RT2500USB wireless NICs But don't see a ural device getting created. It's hard to tell from the package, but I suspect it's a version problem. There's a small sticker on the bottom of the box that has "00173FAFD030 ver. 4000" printed on it. But the part number just says FD7050. Any help would be appreciated. thanks... don -- Don Hinton