Re: Belkin wireless support
richard childers <[email protected]>
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It would not surprise me to learn that the Belkin card has a chipset that is already supported, and it just hasn't been added to the pccard.conf. Could someone who has a working Belkin PCMCIA card post their entry for use by others? A terse 'It works' doesn't help anyone. -- richard [email protected] wrote: > hi warner, > > hmmm. i can report that the belkin works for me in its pci-pcmcia card in a > 4.6 stable system. the pcmcia card seemed to behave the same as my other card > in a laptop, but i lack the necessary infrastructure to actually test that > setup. i did have to clone the smc pccard entry and put in the belkin strings. > > -steve > > On 30 Oct 2002 at 21:56, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > In message: <[email protected]> > > richard childers <[email protected]> writes: > > : Summary: no, Belkins don't work under FreeBSD. > > > > Yes, they do, at least not in the PCMCIA<->PCI adapter. I've used > > these in 'connectathons' in the past. > > > > : Caveat: Belkin's PCI<->PCMCIA converters *do* have a chipset that is > > : recognized by FreeBSD, and it mistakenly thinks it's found a card, but it : > > hasn't and it doesn't work. > > > > When I tested it, it worked for me. Maybe I should go to office-max > > and find out why it doesn't work for you. > > > > Warner > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > > > Stephen Nadas Ericsson IPI > [email protected] 920 Main Campus Dr. > Voice: +1-919-472-9935 Fax: x/9999 Suite 500 > Mobile: +1-919-522-0991 ECN: 802 29935 Raleigh, NC 27606 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- Richard A Childers/KG6HAC -- Senor UNIX System & Network Administrator "Dont forget nothing." Maj Rogers, standing orders, 1st Ranger Bn, 1759 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message