Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:47:34 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Aaron Benner" <bennera@rocky.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Linksys WMP11, ca. 2003. Message-ID: <009201c2e767$ced839c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <3E6CED79.7030202@rocky.edu>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Benner" <bennera@rocky.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 2:54 PM Subject: Linksys WMP11, ca. 2003. > I'm trying to coerce a new Linksys WMP11 802.11b card into working on a > FreeBSD install of 4.7-RELEASE. In looking through the freebsd-mobile > lists I've seen some discussion on this (from around this time last > year), but all of the resources included in that discussion > (particularly the patches to the wi driver) are out of sync with the > kernel sources I've got. I just cvsup'd 4.x-STABLE and -current and > didn't manage to find either the vendor ID or device ID reported in > dmesg in the driver code there. I was wondering if anyone out there > could give me an update on support for this wireless card? The posts > from freebsd-mobile > (http://www.riverside.org/archive/html/freebsd-mobile/2002-02/msg00038.html) > that were most promising mentioned commiting the patches to -current, > but I don't see any evidence of that in my kernel sources. > > To top off my confusion when I boot I'm getting different dev/vendor > id's from the card than are mentioned in the post referenced above. > > Here's my dmesg output: > > pcib0: <Intel 82845 Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard > pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 > pcib1: <Intel 82845 PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 > pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 > pci1: <NVidia Riva Ultra Vanta TNT2 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11 > pcib2: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) Hub to PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0 > pci3: <PCI bus> on pcib2 > pci3: <unknown card> (vendor=0x14e4, dev=0x4301) at 2.0 irq 11 > xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xac00-0xac7f mem > 0xdfefdf80-0xdfefdfff irq 10 > at device 5.0 on pci3 > xl0: Ethernet address: 00:01:03:de:12:db > miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0 > ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0 > ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > > The linksys WMP11 is listed as pci3. Note that the vendor/dev ids are > different from those listed in the patch posted by Thomas Skibo > <skibo@pacbell.net> to freebsd-mobile (as referenced above) which shows > the device as: > > + {0x1260, 0x3873, WI_BUS_PCI_NATIVE, "Linksys WMP11 PCI Prism2.5"}, > > So, the qeustion is, can I make this (actually these 10) cards work with > FreeBSD? Any help or pointers on this would be greatly appreciated. > > --Aaron Looking up your PCI IDs (http://www.yourvote.com/pci), I see that the unknown device on pci3 is really a Broadcom IEEE 802.11b WLAN client chipset. Not sure which device driver should be extended to support this chipset. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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