Support for USB Wi-Fi adapters?

Christian Brueffer chris at unixpages.org
Tue Feb 10 05:42:18 PST 2004


On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:43:22AM -0700, 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?
> 
Stuart Walsh was working on a driver for the USB atmel for some time.
However, I don't know what the current status on that one is.

- Christian

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