Re: cheap (supported) wifi card
Steve Franks wrote: Don, I notice a earlier poster mentioned > > work very well with ndisgen. I think you've been misled. That means you have to go thru several manual steps to smash the windows drivers into something freebsd can use. Ugly, in my opinion. If you want it to work 'out of the box', go back and buy a card with a prisim/orinoco or atheros chipset. If you want to make your existing dongle work, look for ndisgen in the handbook in the 'wireless networking' section. Steve Hi Steve. I'm not sure what you mean by 'misled'. I'm not relating someone else's experiences. I really have had very good results with Project Evil/ndisgen. Those cards I mentioned can function perfectly well. Though I note the TNET1130, just to spite me, has stopped working since I upgraded to 6.2-RELEASE-p7. Maybe I need to re-Evil it. You're right that shoehorning XP drivers into BSD is painful. It's annoying to find the XP driver, then copy it to FAT to copy it to UFS, then wrap it with ndisgen. After that, it functions like any other driver ["sudo kldload if_ndis", etc]. Native drivers would be better. I don't have the experience to write them though. Project Evil is better than nothing, specially if it works well. Actually this whole discussion might well be moot, because in the specific case of the F5D7051, native drivers are coming in the form of [if I read correctly] if_ural and if_rum. Btw, my last email implied that the F5D7051 is based on the TNET1130 chipset. That was wrong. Apologies. It's actually a Broadcom chip. Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: cheap (supported) wifi card
Don, I notice a earlier poster mentioned > > work very well with ndisgen. I think you've been misled. That means you have to go thru several manual steps to smash the windows drivers into something freebsd can use. Ugly, in my opinion. If you want it to work 'out of the box', go back and buy a card with a prisim/orinoco or atheros chipset. If you want to make your existing dongle work, look for ndisgen in the handbook in the 'wireless networking' section. Steve On 8/16/07, Don Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Adam: > > Adam J Richardson writes: > > Don Hinton wrote: > > > Could someone recommend a good (and > > > cheap) one that's includes a/b/g*/n and is supported, either natively > > > or via ndis? > > > > Hi Don, > > > > I can heartily recommend any card based on the TNET1130 chipset. They > > work very well with ndisgen. Examples include the Add-on Tech GWP-100 > > and the Belkin F5D7 series, such as the F5D7051 USB key or the F5D7000 > > cardbus card. They're all cheap. They do "a", "b" and "g". I'm not sure > > about "n", though. > > I picked up a Belkin F5D7050, but can seem to figure out how to get it > to work. I'm obviously missing something. > > $ dmesg > > ugen0: on uhub6 > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD localhost 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #5: Mon Aug 13 16:23:35 UTC > 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HP_SMP i386 > > I've compiled the following in my kernel, per man ural: > > device wlan# 802.11 support > device wlan_amrr # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm > device uhci# UHCI PCI->USB interface > device ohci# OHCI PCI->USB interface > device ehci# EHCI PCI->USB interface (USB 2.0) > device usb # USB Bus (required) > device ural# Ralink Technology RT2500USB wireless NICs > > But don't see a ural device getting created. It's hard to tell from > the package, but I suspect it's a version problem. There's a small > sticker on the bottom of the box that has "00173FAFD030 ver. 4000" > printed on it. But the part number just says FD7050. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > thanks... > don > -- > Don Hinton > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: cheap (supported) wifi card
Hi Adam: Adam J Richardson writes: > Don Hinton wrote: > > Could someone recommend a good (and > > cheap) one that's includes a/b/g*/n and is supported, either natively > > or via ndis? > > Hi Don, > > I can heartily recommend any card based on the TNET1130 chipset. They > work very well with ndisgen. Examples include the Add-on Tech GWP-100 > and the Belkin F5D7 series, such as the F5D7051 USB key or the F5D7000 > cardbus card. They're all cheap. They do "a", "b" and "g". I'm not sure > about "n", though. I picked up a Belkin F5D7050, but can seem to figure out how to get it to work. I'm obviously missing something. $ dmesg ugen0: on uhub6 $ uname -a FreeBSD localhost 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #5: Mon Aug 13 16:23:35 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HP_SMP i386 I've compiled the following in my kernel, per man ural: device wlan# 802.11 support device wlan_amrr # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm device uhci# UHCI PCI->USB interface device ohci# OHCI PCI->USB interface device ehci# EHCI PCI->USB interface (USB 2.0) device usb # USB Bus (required) device ural# Ralink Technology RT2500USB wireless NICs But don't see a ural device getting created. It's hard to tell from the package, but I suspect it's a version problem. There's a small sticker on the bottom of the box that has "00173FAFD030 ver. 4000" printed on it. But the part number just says FD7050. Any help would be appreciated. thanks... don -- Don Hinton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: cheap (supported) wifi card
Don Hinton wrote: Could someone recommend a good (and cheap) one that's includes a/b/g*/n and is supported, either natively or via ndis? Hi Don, I can heartily recommend any card based on the TNET1130 chipset. They work very well with ndisgen. Examples include the Add-on Tech GWP-100 and the Belkin F5D7 series, such as the F5D7051 USB key or the F5D7000 cardbus card. They're all cheap. They do "a", "b" and "g". I'm not sure about "n", though. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: cheap (supported) wifi card
On 8/9/07, Don Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > I recently purchased a new HP dv9500t laptop. Unfortunately, the > Intel 4965AGN wireless card it came with isn't supported (yet). I > tried to use ndisgen, but it caused a panic (both 6.2 and > 7.0-current). I'm afraid you are in big trouble with a name-brand laptop. You cannot put a non-vendor approved minipci card in it without the bios locking you out. I tried no less than 3 different cards before I Google'd it and found this is a common problem - bios checks the vendor id or somesuch and won't even boot the bios config screen until you take the card out. I read this happends with HP, Dell, everyone. FIrst it was the recording industry, not laptop vendors. Next you're going to have to pay a yearly fee for them to even boot. Get a nice PCMCIA or USB card with an Atheros or Prism (and some Realtek - just got burned with a new realtek, however) chipset and you're good to go. I have a $35 store-brand card from OfficeMax that works like a charm - my HP laptop has a broadcomm in it, and I'm running amd64 - supposedly the 64 bit broadcomm drivers don't even work with Vista - big panic ndiswrapping them - gave up. Just Google the part number and chipset before you buy it. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
cheap (supported) wifi card
Hi: I recently purchased a new HP dv9500t laptop. Unfortunately, the Intel 4965AGN wireless card it came with isn't supported (yet). I tried to use ndisgen, but it caused a panic (both 6.2 and 7.0-current). Since I'd like to continue using FreeBSD as my desktop (laptop) OS, and need wireless access, I've decided to pick up a temporary PCMCIA wireless card in the meantime. Could someone recommend a good (and cheap) one that's includes a/b/g*/n and is supported, either natively or via ndis? thanks in advance... don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
