Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:11:51 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: john@critchley.biz, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Annother Wireless network card annother problem Message-ID: <200304210911.51382.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <200304211031.aa06455@banana.critchley.biz> References: <200304211031.aa06455@banana.critchley.biz>
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On Monday 21 April 2003 02:31, john@critchley.biz wrote:
> Um, this seems to be all over the place - which mailing list *SHOULD*
> this topic be on?
Probably on -questions; I'll send it back there.
You screwed up the attributions somehow. I wrote this:
> >I also have a Lucent Orinoco Silver PCCard
> > and a Belkin F5D6020 PCCard. I don't use the Belkin much because my
> > battery life is noticeably shorter than with the NetGear card.
>
> I have a Belkin F5D6020 which is giving me trouble - although I am
> trying to use it with a Belkin F5D6000 PCI adapter - here's what the wi
> driver has to say about them:
>
> wi0: <PRISM2STA WaveLAN> port 0xa400-0xa43f,0xa800-0xa87f mem
> 0xf4000000-0xf4000fff irq 12 at device 10.0 on pci0 wi0:
> CSR_READ_2(WI_HFA384X_SWSUPPORT0_OFF) wanted 18989, got 0
> device_probe_and_attach: wi0 attach returned 6
You don't mention which version of FreeBSD you're using. Many of the PCI
bridges on the 802.11 PCI adapters are not supported, or not well
supported, on FreeBSD 4.x. I think some of them might have better
support on 5.x, but I haven't tried WiFi there, and if I do, it'll be
with with the Aironet PCI card.
You might want to look into a PCCard bridge that is known good for
whatever release you're running. Sorry, I don't have any advice to give
on that front, I haven't looked at those things for at least 5 years.
--
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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