Prism54 Chipsets Supported?

Brian Fundakowski Feldman green at freebsd.org
Fri Jul 2 15:11:14 PDT 2004


On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:37:15AM +0200, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently using a Dell TrueMobile 1300 (Broadcom) on my Dell 
> Latitude D600 Notebook. Thanks to Bill Pauls awesome work it is performs 
> very well for daily und "normal" wireless lan usage.
> 
> But i want to run some tools, that are only available fo wi-cards.
> Is Prism54-Chipset already supported? I read something that a driver for 
> linux exists on www.prism54.org. will it make it to freebsd or is it 
> highly unlikely?
> 
> Some on the lists posted, that he has replaced his card with an 
> ath-based one. Maybe ath is an alternative to wi, but i'd relly prefer 
> wi (802.11g or a is a must have).

I believe I will be working on a driver for it based upon the knowledge
contained in the Linux driver (http://prism54g.org).  Has anyone else
already started any work on it?

Also, any major caveats?

Thanks,
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