USB Wifi adapter (Atheros)

[Paul B Mahol]

On 10/25/10, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
> El dia Monday, October 25, 2010 a las 08:04:54AM +0000, Paul B Mahol
> escribio:
>
>> On 10/25/10, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I've bought an Acer Aspire One D250 mini laptop which has an unsupported
>> > Broadcom Wifi card build in (BCM4310 USB Controller). Can someone
>> > recommend an USB Wifi key, for example with an Atheros chip, to use
>> > until the Broadcom chip is supported in FreeBSD? I'm using 8-CURRENT as
>> > of May 2009.
>> >
>> > I've tried as well the ndisgen(8) way based on the XP driver with no
>> > luck.
>>
>> And you reported bug?
>
> No. I have no problem with filing a bug report, but I was unsure if this
> makes sense because we are talking (at least in parts) about Windows
> software. Should I?

If you tell me what you did and what did not work I could help you.

Bugs can't fix itself.

NDISulator works on USB somehow, ignoring fact that it puts USB
related timeouts messages on console (I fail to track source of this
problem - it appeared some months after weongyo@ works was merged to
CURRENT), and unpluging attached device panics kernel.
>
> Btw: I pulled out HEAD from SVN and the chip is still unsupported, at
> least not mentioned in sys/dev/bwn and sys/dev/bwi and its man pages.

Neither bwn nor bwi support USB. For USB you will certainly need completly
another new driver.