pcmcia wifi adapter that can be purchased?

Chris Whitehouse cwhiteh at onetel.com
Wed Apr 11 10:28:18 UTC 2012


On 10/04/2012 23:47, Kendall Shaw wrote:
> Chris Whitehouse<cwhiteh at onetel.com>  writes:
>
>> On 10/04/2012 18:37, Kendall Shaw wrote:
>>>
>>> Do you happen to know of a PCMCIA Type II wireless adapter that is
>>> currently being sold online that supports WPA under freebsd 9.0?
>>> Alternately, a USB 1.0 adapter? I would rather keep the USB ports free
>>> for other uses.
>>
>> Linksys WPC54G works with malo driver (check the man page if you get
>> one) and is available on ebay. I haven't had one in regular use but I
>> just did a flood ping on 9.0R i386 and it showed less than 1% packet
>> loss.
>>
>> Chris
>
> Thanks. Oops... I clicked too soon and bought from Amazon. The bwi/bwn
Yes looks a bit more expensive there than ebay.
> man pages say the version 3 of the adapter is supported. Amazon doesn't
> say what version. Is the malo driver for newer versions of the adapter?

My card is v5 with Marvell Libertas 88W8335 chip.

Chris


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