Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:22:44 +0100 From: Pascal Giannakakis <capm@gmx.net> To: David Brodbeck <dbrodbeck@ameritech.net> Cc: Andrea Franceschini <andrea.franceschini@postecom.it>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with SMC2602W wireless card Message-ID: <3E551CF4.9020205@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <3E4C355C.7090104@ameritech.net> References: <20030212105522.GB849@postecom.it> <13264.1045048748@www6.gmx.net> <3E4C355C.7090104@ameritech.net>
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David Brodbeck schrieb: > Pascal Giannakakis wrote: > >> ARRRRRRGH!!! FFS!!! I ordered 2 of these, based on availability and the >> list, and now i read i might be unsupported! >:( Could NE1 please >> confirm this card is >> running under FreeBSD 5.0? > > > I'm beginning to suspect there are multiple versions of this card. Some > of the websites I've found seem to suggest a card that consists of a > removable PCMCIA card in a PCI adapter. What I have doesn't resemble > that at all. I've already been burned by the D-Link DWL-650 PCMCIA card > I bought for my laptop -- it was on a supported list for Linux, but what > I didn't realize is that there are no less than three completely > different cards with the same part number! This kind of thing is enough > to make you want to give up doing wireless networking under open-source > operating systems. > > I haven't tried Andrea's suggestion yet, but I hope to this weekend. *sigh* You are right, David. I was in exactly the same situation, I got blinded by a D-Link 650+. Of course no trace of the mentioned chip in wi(4). After that i tried to find a Linksys card. Well, i found one, but - life can be so cruel - it did not have the listed Prism Chip, it was either AMD or Admtek. 3rd try: SMC 2602W. Now i got the SMC 2602W (the package says it is version 2 :/ ) which has a Admtek ADM8211 chip on it. BLOODY! I plugged in the card, and hey, of course it does NOT work. "pciconf -v -l": none1@pci0:8:0: class=0x028000 card=0x260210b8 chip=0x82011317 rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Admtek Inc' class = network Andrea's tip does not help here, as there is no information in pci_vendors what to add exactly in wi_if_pci.c. Well, who can help now? Where to go next? PS: David, the next try for me would be MA301 from Netgear. What's yours? Gee, somtimes i am surprised how patient I am! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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