Re: Help getting Compaq Wireless LAN card working

stan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:01:30AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:51:14 -0500
> > From: stan <[email protected]>
> > Sender: [email protected]
> > 
> > I am trying to get my Compaq wireless LAN card for my N410C working.
> > 
> > I've looked at:
> > 
> > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7121/sam0205a/sam0205a.htm
> > 
> > Given that information, I've added the apropriate itmes to my kernle (It's
> > a device awi Prisim chipset, right?).
> 
> I think you want the wi driver. You can load it with 'kldload
> if_wi'. awi is a special driver for the developers to use to try to
> resolve some issues with a specific chip-set and is only for use if
> the normal wi driver won't work. I don't think it support Prism chips.
> 
> > Now when I boot the machine I get the following in dmesg:
> > 
> > ugen0: Compaq Computers Compaq WLAN MultiPort W200, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2
> 
> ugen is a generic USB device. Is this a USB connected wireless?
> 

Looks like that is the problem. It appears the FreeBSD does not support
wireless adapters on teh USB _ye_ (I hope?).

Anyone know if anyone is working on this?

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