Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 09:44:17 +0100 (BST) From: john@critchley.biz To: john@critchley.biz Subject: Re: Annother Wireless network card annother problem Message-ID: <200304120944.aa00307@banana.critchley.biz> In-Reply-To: <200304102016.aa00799@banana.critchley.biz> from "john@critchley.biz" at Apr 10, 2003 08:16:42 PM
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I asked Aaron Benner <bennera@rocky.edu> about the Linksys card as he had been asking on freebsd-questions. He was able to tell me what was going om with WMP11s, and I thaught I should pass it on: > If your WMP11 was stamped out with a Broadcom chipset instead of the > PRISMII chipset that linksys used to manufacture the card with you (like > myself) are very much so out of luck. > > There is no reference literature available on the broadcom version, so > nobody has been able to write driver code for it. > > There's a petition on to get B.S. to release a map of the registers on > the card, but until that happens I haven't found anything that isn't > WinFOO that will make them go. > > Best of luck, > --AB > (We actually just went out and bought 10BaseTX adapters and shelved the > wireless for the time being.) He also was able to tell me: > If you've got the card outside the box the FCC ID is: > > PKW-WMP11-V27, and is stamped on the top of the shield casing. > > The last 3 numbers are what's important. The v27 cards all have the > broadcom chipsets. > > You can also consult http://www.yourvote.com/pci/default.asp to look up > a vendor based on the vendor's PCI id (which you list below). > > 0x14e4 - 0x4301 corresponds to: > > Device ID: 0x4301 > Add Info > Chip Number: BCM4301 802.11b > Description: IEEE 802.11b WLAN client chipset > Notes: used in BCM94301MP (minipci) and BCM94301CB (cardbus) > > And belongs to the Broadcom corporation. I just love linksys, don't you? > > --AB > (Feel free to redistribute.) > > > john@critchley.biz wrote: . . . > > What's the best way to tell? > > The vendor, device numbers are 0x14e4, 0x4301. > > So now I'm down to my Belkin PCMCIA card which is a rebadged WL11000p. Anybody got ideas on that? (Or do I swap my OS to Windows XP ? ;-) -jc
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