Re: Belkin wireless support

Previously I stated:


> 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.

It occurs to me now that perhaps we (Warner & I) are talking apples and oranges.

Perusal of Google's Canadian cache of BSD knowledge (www.google.ca/bsd) suggests that
Belkin makes more than one model of PCMCIA card.

The card I refer to in my previous postings on this topic is a F5D6020
802.11b-compliant PCMCIA card.

Belkin's website describes:
- a F5D6000, which is their PCI <->PCMCIA card ...
- what appears to be an integrated 802.11b-on-PCI card, B5D-006 ...
- a wireless PDA card, F5D6060 ...
- their aforemention F5D6020, PCMCIA card ...
- another PCI-based  ('integrated') wireless card, F5D6001 ...
- and at least three other wireless access point products that I noticed.

freebsd.org's release note for FreeBSD 4.6 mention that a Belkin F5U011 and F5U111
are supported; these are USB-based cards and would for that reason be likely to be
included amongst the set of devices associated with laptops.

I'm guessing their 'integrated' PCI-based products work great with FreeBSD.

If anyone has an entry for a Belkin F5D6020 PCMCIA-based 802.11b wireless access card
or knowledge regarding other cards it emulates, feel free to share; otherwise, as far
as I know, that particular card does not at this time work with FreeBSD 4.6.


-- richard


>
>
> 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
> > >
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