SMC - 2402W wireless PCI ethernet card
    Alin-Adrian Anton 
    aanton at reversedhell.net
       
    Wed Jul 23 13:34:12 PDT 2003
    
    
  
Scott Mitchell wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 10:52:51PM +0300, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi guys,
>>
>>anyone knows if this "*SMC - 2402W" *is supported by FreeBSD? I am going 
>>to buy 2 x wireless cards. If any other are better supported or one 
>>knows that they work well, please tell me, so I can buy the right one.
>>
>>Thanks for all,
>>
>>Alin.
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Alin,
>
>I'm pretty sure the answer is no... The wi(4) driver supports most cards
>with common 802.11b chipsets, but this device provides some nonstandard
>22Mbps mode with a TI chipset that I doubt is supported in FreeBSD.
>
>The wi(4) manpage contains a reasonable list of supported chipsets and
>cards, although some of these are probably hard to find these days.
>
>Cheers,
>
>	Scott
>  
>
That is true, I tested and it doesn't. Pretty hard to find the ones 
listed in hardware compatibility.
Thanks.
Alin.
    
    
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