wireless on a laptop
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Fri Feb 24 09:34:50 PST 2006
Florent Thoumie wrote:
> On Thursday 23 February 2006 17:40, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> hi all-
>>
>> i have a D-Link DWL-G650M PCCard (Atheros) and an IBM T40 laptop. they
>> don't want to talk with each other.
>>
>> the T40 has a built in Aironet, but the driver generates "received 194
>> bytes, expected 196 bytes" messages in the system log, and i can't get
>> it to work.
>>
>> so i bought this Atheros-based super-G card.
>>
>> the problem is the cardbus infrastructure doesn't seem to recognize the
>> card. even if i "kldload if_ath".
>>
>> i'm new to FreeBSD, so any guidance here would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Atheros Super-G cards are not (yet?) supported.
>
> I think your best bet is to use ndis(4) (see ndisgen(8)).
>
Super-G is a buzzword for various optional features; the cards work fine
when not using those features.
Sam
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