Re: Manufacturer documented wireless NIC's
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:06:16PM -0600, Patrick Bowen wrote: I'm looking to replace the Realtek rtl8185 mini-PCI wireless NIC in my laptop, and I was wondering about what to replace it with. Could anyone tell me who the manufacturers are that support their chips with documentation available to FreeBSD for the writing of drivers, please. I believe that Ralink and Atmel are in that category, according to the googling I've been able to do. I'd like to support those manufacturers that support FreeBSD. Thanks in Advance, Patrick Check out: # man ath_hal I've been pretty happy with *built-in* ath(4)/ath_hal(4) NICs. I have no experience with PCMCIA (or whatever they are called) versions. Cheers, Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Manufacturer documented wireless NIC's
Patrick Bowen wrote: Could anyone tell me who the manufacturers are that support their chips with documentation available to FreeBSD for the writing of drivers, please. I have two computers with VIA 6102 for ethernet. One is a EPIA Mini-itx and the CD included has a FreeBSD driver. One might expect the VIA driver to be better than the free offering from an engineering student but I can't tell that from looking at the code while not knowing the hardware. You can get specs from VIA by filling out a form and telling a good story. But it seems VIA thinks they are doing a favor. The point of this little tale is to question what support means. It looks like you can't ship the VIA driver with BSD because of restrictions in the source. I would only call it support if the ViA product pages included BSD along with Windows and Linux already listed as compatible OSes. And if they contributed quality drivers to the 'BSD distributions. It would be beneficial for VIA and BSD. Cheers, -BobMc- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
