wifi support

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Fri May 13 04:53:37 PDT 2005


Perica Veljanovski <FreeBSD at euro.net.mk> wrote:

> I'm thinking of buying a Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO Pro V2020 laptop which 
> has a Pentium M 725 (centrino) processor, Inter 855GME chipset with 
> integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Fast Ethernet LAN.
> 
> Since I'm not at all familiar with with the wi-fi technology and can't 
> seem to find this particular wifi on 
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN, I would 
> like to ask you if I'm mistaking?
> 
> Does FreeBSD support this WLAN adapter? If not, is it going to be 
> supported in near future?

fk at r51 ~ $pciconf -l -v | grep -A 4 ndis
ndis0 at pci2:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x27128086 chip=0x42208086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = 'PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection'
    class    = network

Can be used with Project Evil as seen above, or with
<http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/iwi-freebsd.html>.

Regards
Fabian
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