Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:15:07 +0100 From: Morten Rodal <morten@rodal.no> To: Pascal Giannakakis <capm@gmx.net> Cc: David Brodbeck <dbrodbeck@ameritech.net>, Andrea Franceschini <andrea.franceschini@postecom.it>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with SMC2602W wireless card Message-ID: <20030319161507.GA688@slurp.rodal.no> In-Reply-To: <3E551CF4.9020205@gmx.net> References: <20030212105522.GB849@postecom.it> <13264.1045048748@www6.gmx.net> <3E4C355C.7090104@ameritech.net> <3E551CF4.9020205@gmx.net>
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--ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 07:22:44PM +0100, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: > David Brodbeck schrieb: > >I'm beginning to suspect there are multiple versions of this card. Some= =20 > >of the websites I've found seem to suggest a card that consists of a=20 > >removable PCMCIA card in a PCI adapter. What I have doesn't resemble=20 > >that at all. I've already been burned by the D-Link DWL-650 PCMCIA card= =20 > >I bought for my laptop -- it was on a supported list for Linux, but what= =20 > >I didn't realize is that there are no less than three completely=20 > >different cards with the same part number! This kind of thing is enough= =20 > >to make you want to give up doing wireless networking under open-source= =20 > >operating systems. > > > >I haven't tried Andrea's suggestion yet, but I hope to this weekend. >=20 > *sigh* You are right, David. I was in exactly the same situation, I got= =20 > blinded by a D-Link 650+. Of course no trace of the mentioned chip in=20 > wi(4). After that i tried to find a Linksys card. Well, i found one, but= =20 > - life can be so cruel - it did not have the listed Prism Chip, it was=20 > either AMD or Admtek. 3rd try: SMC 2602W. >=20 > Now i got the SMC 2602W (the package says it is version 2 :/ ) which has= =20 > a Admtek ADM8211 chip on it. BLOODY! I plugged in the card, and hey, of= =20 > course it does NOT work. "pciconf -v -l": >=20 > none1@pci0:8:0: class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x260210b8 chip=3D0x82011317 rev= =3D0x11=20 > hdr=3D0x00 > vendor =3D 'Admtek Inc' > class =3D network >=20 > Andrea's tip does not help here, as there is no information in=20 > pci_vendors what to add exactly in wi_if_pci.c. >=20 > Well, who can help now? Where to go next? >=20 >=20 Unfortunatly I got this version of the SMC2602W card too :/ Andrea's tip will not help us here because the wi driver does not understand the Admtek ADM8211 chip :( What did you guys end up with, did you buy a new card or what? For what it's worth the vendor is 0x1317 and the device is 0x8201 (if you put those two numbers together you get the chip from pciconf :) --=20 Morten Rodal --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+eJeLbWe1Cy11WVsRAr6VAKDDlZi500en7RKKlZ5yona7Q3/QZwCgylyP UsFgu1DeELJRiv19zr+3q50= =Mi2y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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