From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 15 18:42:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D9EA106564A for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:42:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kshaw@kendallshaw.com) Received: from qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40AC08FC08 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.60]) by qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id yJdL1i0051HpZEsAEJigAz; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:42:40 +0000 Received: from neti ([67.161.38.155]) by omta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id yJif1i00j3LqvbX8aJif5j; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:42:39 +0000 Received: by neti (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 25AF96A18B8; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:42:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Kendall Shaw To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <87obqzqyhm.fsf@neti.kendallshaw.com> <4F84AF58.2090306@onetel.com> <878vi3qk4h.fsf@neti.kendallshaw.com> <4F855CC0.4060009@onetel.com> <878vhxylxp.fsf@neti.kendallshaw.com> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:42:39 -0700 In-Reply-To: <878vhxylxp.fsf@neti.kendallshaw.com> (Kendall Shaw's message of "Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:55:14 -0700") Message-ID: <878vhwygyo.fsf@neti.kendallshaw.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: pcmcia wifi adapter that can be purchased? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:42:46 -0000 Kendall Shaw writes: > Chris Whitehouse writes: > >> On 10/04/2012 23:47, Kendall Shaw wrote: >>> Chris Whitehouse writes: >>> >>>> On 10/04/2012 18:37, Kendall Shaw wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Do you happen to know of a PCMCIA Type II wireless adapter that is >>>>> currently being sold online that supports WPA under freebsd 9.0? >>>>> Alternately, a USB 1.0 adapter? I would rather keep the USB ports free >>>>> for other uses. >>>> >>>> Linksys WPC54G works with malo driver (check the man page if you get >>>> one) and is available on ebay. I haven't had one in regular use but I >>>> just did a flood ping on 9.0R i386 and it showed less than 1% packet >>>> loss. >>>> >>>> Chris >>> >>> Thanks. Oops... I clicked too soon and bought from Amazon. The bwi/bwn >> Yes looks a bit more expensive there than ebay. >>> man pages say the version 3 of the adapter is supported. Amazon doesn't >>> say what version. Is the malo driver for newer versions of the adapter? >> >> My card is v5 with Marvell Libertas 88W8335 chip. > > I got the card and it is working. Thanks everyone! > > The card is a Linksys WPC54G v3.1 and I am using the bwn driver. I wish > that it would tell you what version the card is, at least on the box... > > I installed bwn_firmware_kmod from ports to set it up. > > /boot/loader.conf: > > if_bwn_load="YES" > bwn_v4_ucode_load="YES" > > /etc/rc.conf: > > wlans_bwn0="wlan0" > ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP" > wpa_supplicant_enable="YES" > > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf: > > ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant > ctrl_interface_group=wheel > network={ > ssid="Error" > proto=WPA > psk="topsecret" > } I should have added: siba_bwn0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x00481737 chip=0x431814e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller' class = network output from pciconf Kendall