iBook G3/800 Airport wireless support?

Thu Jan 3 17:56:55 UTC 2013

On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:36:11 +0100
Odd-Jarle Kristoffersen <gamuso at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Have you tried FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE? Is it better at detecting the card?

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

Odd. Usually PCCard controllers are connected to PCI.
Do you have complete output from pciconf -lv somewhere?
And dmesg output for that matter?
Is your PCCard controller(s) detected at all?

HTH
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Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at getmail.no>