From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 16:16:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A114337B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:16:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.det3.ameritech.net (mailhost2-sfldmi.sfldmi.ameritech.net [206.141.193.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9D8D43FDD for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:16:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbrodbeck@ameritech.net) Received: from ameritech.net ([66.72.187.228]) by mailhost.det3.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20030214001629.SWCN176.mailhost.det3.ameritech.net@ameritech.net>; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:16:29 -0500 Message-ID: <3E4C355C.7090104@ameritech.net> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:16:28 -0500 From: David Brodbeck User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pascal Giannakakis Cc: Andrea Franceschini , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with SMC2602W wireless card References: <20030212105522.GB849@postecom.it> <13264.1045048748@www6.gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message