iBook G3/800 Airport wireless support?

[Odd-Jarle Kristoffersen]

I received a tip to post my question to this mailing list, so here we go.

I have an iBook G3/800 dual-USB which I have installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE onto. However I am unable to find the wireless network card. This is a basic Airport card connected to the original pccard / PCMCIA slot, not the Extreme edition. The card works well with Mac OS X 10.4.

I've tried the bwi driver but no card shows up.

Added the following to /boot/loader.conf

if_bwi_load="YES"
wlan_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"
wlan_amrr_load="YES"

Then I also tried the instructions in the handbook

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

but no wireless adapter shows up in dmesg

Googling a bit I find some references to if_wi and a "man if_wi" seems promising since I don't have the Express card, but just the PCMCIA AirPort card which I understand is a rebranded Lucent card or something.

However I have no if_wi.ko module. Does the powerpc branch support PCMCIA/PCCARD at all? Is the if_wi replaced by if_bwi with no support for the "simple" Airport card?

pciconf -lv does not show any network devices except for the built-in ethernet port (UniNorth/Pangea GMAC (Sun GEM). 

Thanks for any input on the matter.