Belkin PCMCIA wireless card (F5D6020 ver. 2)

[Steven Ketcham]

I am assuming this card is not supported? I did find this message on a 
linux newsgroup:

"Scott Waye" <scott at boldtower.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.02.16.23.46.16.468947.432 at boldtower.com...
> To finish my own thread, it turns out that the new Belkin cards do indeed
> use a different chipset.  It is supported under the
> atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net project.  Brief instructions for what I
> did are here:  www.boldtower.com/linux/sony.html
>

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:10:39 -0400, Steven Ketcham <stedak at charter.net> 
wrote:

> I bought a Belkin PCMCIA wireless card (F5D6020 ver. 2) for my laptop. 
> When I insert it I receive a panic message then the machine reboots. Is 
> the Belkin supported? I have seen some posts saying that it is. Is there 
> something "special" that needs done before inserting this type of card? I 
> am currently using a Xircom card and it works fine. I just want to go the 
> wireless route.
> Is there a better entry level wireless PCMCIA card to purchase?
> FreeBsd 5.1.
> Thanks!



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