USB wireless network adapters

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat May 17 09:50:33 PDT 2003


In message: <200305170914.44778.cbiffle at safety.net>
            "Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle at safety.net> writes:
: On Saturday 17 May 2003 07:07 am, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
: > The first thing I tried was a cardbus pccard from Sitecom, which uses
: > the Prism2.5 chipset and should be supported by the wi(4) driver.
: > However, I'm having trouble with pccard - FreeBSD says my pcic is
: > "16-bit", and the card works under neither OS.

OLDCARD should deal with pcic until I can get the 16-bit legacy
support into 'newcard'

: Unfortunately, 32-bit PCMCIA support -- that is, Cardbus -- isn't available 
: until 5.0.  I have little experience with the USB adapters, but you do have 
: other options, namely finding a 16-bit wireless card.  Most of the Orinoco 
: cards I've come across have been 16-bit.

All the PC Cards supported by wi are 16-bit.

Warner


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