iBook G3/800 Airport wireless support?

[Justin Hibbits]

(writing from my phone, as I'm in the process of moving)

The original Airport card in your iBook uses the if_wi driver. However
there are a couple problems right now. The most obvious is that there is
currently no attachment for the driver for the Macio bus. You can search
this list archives for a patch I made in 2011, but the other problem that
you will run into is the if_wi driver is just broken. There are discussions
about this on FreeBSD-wireless that you can search for.

-Justin

On Jan 3, 2013 4:36 AM, "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.
>
> 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.
>
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