MSI Wind Notebook's network interfaces

[Sam Leffler]

Milan Obuch wrote:
> On Friday 05 September 2008 18:13:45 Kevin Downey wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Milan Obuch <freebsd-net at dino.sk> wrote:
>>> [ snip ]
>>> Could anybody comment on wireless interface?
>> I could not get the internal wifi to work with ndis wrapper. It
>> appears that using the rtw driver netbsd, openbsd, and dragonflybsd
>> all support this chipset. I found a (polish?) webpage with a very
>> preliminary attempt at porting the rtw driver. The author of the port
>> said it doesn't really work.
>>
>> I just gave up and bought a usb wifi stick.
> 
> Hm, I downloaded install CDs for NetBSD-4.0 and OpenBSD-4.3, and they do not 
> show working wireless interface/no driver attached. How did you try it? Do 
> you have any reference, alternatively?
> 
> Wireless interface is not top priority for me at a moment, but if it were not 
> too hard, I will try.
> 
> My notebook is Wind U100 series... is yours similar or perhaps the same?

rtw supports only an old 11b only part.  If you've really got a RealTek
wireless part in this laptop then it's not supported by any bsd driver I
know of.  There's a linux driver of unknown quality that someone can use
to build a bsd driver but given how cheap wireless parts are your best
bet is to just replace the card.

	Sam