driver support for Belkin F5D7050 v 5xxx ?

[Weongyo Jeong]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:35:23PM +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 11/16/08, Kayven Riese <kayvey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just purchased a wireless connection device that connects to my ASUS
> > M6800N laptop dual
> > booting Vista and
> >
> > KV_BSD# uname -a
> > FreeBSD KV_BSD 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC
> > 2008     root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> > KV_BSD#
> >
> > via USB.
> >
> > While booting on Vista, connection was fine.  I investigated my man pages
> > for Belkin modles in
> > the interfaces:
> > V_BSD# man an | grep Belkin
> > KV_BSD# man awi | grep Belkin
> > KV_BSD# man ipw | grep Belkin
> > KV_BSD# set -o vi
> > KV_BSD# man iwi | grep Belkin
> > KV_BSD# man ral | grep Belkin
> >      Belkin F5D7000 v3            RT2560     PCI
> >      Belkin F5D7010 v2            RT2560     CardBus
> > KV_BSD# man rum | grep Belkin
> >      Belkin F5D7050 ver 3         USB
> >      Belkin F5D9050 ver 3         USB
> > KV_BSD# man ural | grep Belkin
> >      Belkin F5D7050 v2000         USB
> > KV_BSD# man wi | grep Belkin
> >      Belkin F5D6000 (a rebadged WL11000P)
> > KV_BSD# man zyd | grep Belkin
> >            Belkin F5D7050 v.4000
> > KV_BSD#
> >
> > and found some websites that made me compare a serial number that I
> > correlated to some
> > information on the Belkin website and came to the conclusion that my device
> > is a newer
> > version than appears in the above list because of this information:
> >
> > K7SF5D7050E corresponds to version 5xxx
> >
> > That serial number is written on the device.
> >
> > There were no unfamiliar results of ifconfig:
> >
> >
> >
> > KV_BSD# ifconfig
> > bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> >     options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
> >     ether 00:11:d8:22:c9:91
> >     inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> >     media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> >     status: active
> > fwe0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> >     options=8<VLAN_MTU>
> >     ether 02:e0:18:26:4c:e9
> >     ch 1 dma -1
> > fwip0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> >     lladdr 0.e0.18.0.3.26.4c.e9.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0
> > plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mtu
> > 1500
> > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
> >     inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
> >     inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> >     inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> > KV_BSD#
> >
> > I attempted to use the ndisgen utility with the driver disk mounted on
> > "/mnt/drive"
> >
> 
> Currently ndis on freebsd doesnt support usb cards at all.
> There is patch available for CURRENT that is considered experimental and
> make possible to use ndis on FreeBSD with usb cards.

I'd try to commit NDIS USB support soon (maybe before releasing 8.0 :-))
if there are no objections but I don't know whether it should be based
on USB1, USB2 or both.

regards,
Weongy Jeong