Wireless PCI Card for FreeBSD 4.8

Gary Corcoran garycor at comcast.net
Mon Aug 11 13:30:12 PDT 2003



Hi Serge,

> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for an 802.11b base PCI base card which is supported by
> FreeBSD 4.8 and is still available in stores. This is to be installed on
> a Desktop type computer and not a laptop.
> 
> I have already went thought the Release Notes, however as you will see I
> have had no luck. In the last two week, I have tried a two cards
> - Linksys WMP11, which switch from Prism to Broadcom chip
> - SMC 2602W, which switch from a PCMCIA Bridge base card to ADMtek 8201
>   chip
> 
> Don't you hate companies keeping the same Model Number for totally
> different cards? :-(

I don't know if they make what you need, but it *appears* as if Netgear
is one company who *does* change their model numbers when they change
chips.  So if you can find one that was supposed to work, it probably
still will...  (if you can find one for sale)

Gary


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