Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 13:07:50 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Francois Laissus <fr.laissus@laissus.fr> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Addtron wireless awp-100 Message-ID: <200011062107.eA6L7oF28144@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Nov 2000 21:45:03 %2B0100." <20001106214503.A92929@myriade.laissus.fr>
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> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:15:56PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message <20001106094255.A84880@myriade.laissus.fr> Francois Laissus writes:
> > : Is there any plan to support the AWP-100 IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA card ?
> > :
> > : Source for the Linux driver are on the cdrom shipped with.
> >
> > Which chipset is it based on? I don't think that we support it right
> > now (based on a quick grep of pccard.conf). I'm not aware of any
> > wireless drivers under development, except the ux driver port from
> > NetBSD(?). I don't recall which devices this driver supports.
>
> It's based on chipset PRISM from Intersil Corporation, not supported
> by 5.0-20001105-CURRENT !
Um. The PRISM is the Harris (ex-Intersil) chipset, which is supported by
'awi'. Which MAC does it use? I'd be guessing it's using the AMD PCNet/
Mobile as well, in which case 'awi' will support it.
I get the distinct impression that Harris have a reference design for the
PRISM which is just being copied by most vendors.
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