Adding new pccard device entries to FreeBSD 6, how?

Nikolas Britton nikolas.britton at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 10:25:04 PDT 2005


On 10/14/05, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> In message: <ef10de9a0510131106v2e832599t2bf0e8f5e6a00a14 at mail.gmail.com>
>             Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> writes:
> : I'm trying to get FreeBSD 6 working with my Prism 3 based SMC 2532W-B
> : wireless cards. I've added the device entries into the system but I
> : must be doing something wrong, it's still not working. The SMC2532W-B
> : cards are re-branded Zcom XI-330H (Prism 3) and XI-325H (Prism 2.5)
> : cards. I know for a fact that the SMC card works with FreeBSD 4.11, in
> : hostap mode, because I'm using one of them right now with the PLX PCI
> : to PCMCIA bridge controller that came with the old 3Com 3CRWE777A
> : wireless cards......
> :
> : dmesg output:
> : cbb0: <RF5C475 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 2.0 on pci2
> : cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
> : pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
> : pccard0: <unknown card> (manufacturer=0xd601, product=0x0010,
> : function_type=6) at function 0
> : pccard0:    CIS info: SMC, SMC2532W-B EliteConnect Wireless Adapter, ,
>
> I've gone ahead and added this to the wi driver in head.
>
> Warner
>

Thanks warner for the commit and I figured out why It wasn't working
for me... I forgot to add the wi and wlan devices to my custom kernel.
This box is my main desktop computer, hardwired to the net. I decided
to use it for testing out a new PCMCIA to PCI bridge controller for my
firewall/router/AP boxes. D'oh!


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