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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:42:04 -0800
From:      Lopaka Delp <lopaka@ic.ucsb.edu>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, shazeja@cs.vu.nl, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCI 802.11b recommendations?
Message-ID:  <3C50A9DC.7000508@ic.ucsb.edu>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.40.0201241553580.5643-100000@sloep41.cs.vu.nl> <20020124.165332.53441460.imp@village.org> <20020124160808.A5572@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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Brooks Davis wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:53:32PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 
>>: Netgear Wireless PCI MA301GE (the cheapest at EUR 59)
>>
>>Are you sure you get a netcard with that :-)
>>
> 
> You don't.  There is another cheap option which should be available
> soon.  The Linksys PCI cards don't work at this point, but there should
> be driver modifications soon for them and other Prism 2.5s.  The neat
> thing about the Linksys is that under the shielding, it's actually a
> mini-PCI adaptor.
> 
> -- Brooks
> 
> 



I actually got the Linksys WPC11 and WDT11 to work with 4.5-RC2 and 
4.4-RELEASE. It was a pain, but it works.  I had to do the following 
changes to the if_wi.c file:

# cd /usr/src/sys/i386/isa
# diff if_wi.c.orig if_wi.c
214a215

 > {0x16ab, 0x1102,        "Linksys WDT11 PCI IEEE 802.11b"},

1954c1955
< 0, ~0, 1, RF_ACTIVE);
---

 > 0, ~0, 1, RF_SHAREABLE|RF_ACTIVE);



It works for me, i hope it works for you.

			--> Lopaka


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