From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 21:07:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E29106564A for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:07:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@janh.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 923A28FC1F for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:07:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@janh.de) Received: from janh.freebsd (f054105056.adsl.alicedsl.de [78.54.105.56]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKxQS-1KveXX2tx2-0007tw; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:54:47 +0100 Message-ID: <490A1F15.5060008@janh.de> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:54:45 +0100 From: Jan Henrik Sylvester User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080927) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Fromme Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+D1ci7ZpKuN9YhwqxLf/c/l72v6g63hNPGhNn AIzCgyD68tCtCEn313CxPHhxGFwan8oOA6ZGnd6/hbDsYK2dDv 4y6YPGZcQGxgipQszI0fA== Cc: stable-list freebsd Subject: Re: LevelOne WPC-0301 11g Wireless CardBus X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:07:51 -0000 Oliver wrote: > I bought a LevelOne WPC-0301 11g Wireless CardBus Adapter > today. According to the box it is "v6". The ral(4) man- > page mentions only v2, but that one is ancient and can't > be bought anymore. I do not know about the WPC-0301, but I since I bought a wrong WNC-0301 (PCI version), I did some research looking at the IDs and additionally Windows drivers: v.1 is Marvel, v.2 is the old Ralink, v.3 is the never Ralink, and v.5 (and v.6?) is RealTek. (v.4 does not have a Windows driver at the LevelOne homepage.) BTW: I did summit this info to http://linux-wless.passys.nl/ -- it is a pretty good overview, especially if you want to check which vendors switch chipset manufacturers from one revision to the next. My guess would be that you are out of luck, if it is not detected at 7-STABLE. Look at the sys files in the Windows driver, if there is one. Of course, you can try ndis, but I would not go for it. If you shop for a card, most of the 108Mbps are Atheros, which works better than Ralink in my experience. Since you are from Germany, too: geizhals.at lists TP-Link TL-WN610G for less than 15 Euros, which has an Atheros chipset according to the site I mentioned above. If you are looking on Ebay, I can really recommend Philips SNN6500, which does a/b/g and the proprietary Atheros stuff (TURBOP, BURST). Cheers, Jan Henrik