Support for USB Wi-Fi adapters?

[Mike Silbersack]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Brett Glass wrote:

> What is the state of support for USB Wi-Fi adapters in FreeBSD?
> Several clients have asked me if they can use these adapters on
> their BSD servers, but so far I can't find one that FreeBSD
> recognizes. I have one here that's based on the Atmel chipset;
> it says that it's made by Askey Computers and that its device
> ID is 0x123. There's a Prism-family Wi-Fi radio in there, so
> it may be that it's just a matter of glue to get the existing
> Prism driver to work with it. Any ideas?
>
> --Brett Glass

Apparently OpenBSD has support for the USB Prism devices now, but it has
not been ported over here yet.  I'm not aware of anyone working on doing
so either at this point in time.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack