Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 16:07:02 +0200 From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles+fbsd-mobile@stack.nl> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: USB wireless network adapters Message-ID: <20030517140702.GB34052@stack.nl>
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Hello, I have a laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens C6175) dual-booting Windows 98SE and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE and I would like to do wireless networking (802.11b) with it. The first thing I tried was a cardbus pccard from Sitecom, which uses the Prism2.5 chipset and should be supported by the wi(4) driver. However, I'm having trouble with pccard - FreeBSD says my pcic is "16-bit", and the card works under neither OS. Another possibility is a USB adapter from Sitecom. It works under Linux (Mandrake 9.1) with the prism2_usb module on another machine (it has to be removed and reinserted after the driver is loaded, though) and under Windows 98SE on the laptop. I have read about a uwi driver that supported Prism2 USB devices, but I could not find it. Does anyone have a pointer? (If it only works under -CURRENT, I will have to wait some time. I don't have the disk space to install both 4.x and 5.x and I want to have a "known good" version available for some time. -- Jilles Tjoelker
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