I'm running FreeBSD 5.4. I have a Soundblaster Audigy LS and a Netgear WG311 v3 wireless PCI card. The ath driver does not recognize the Netgear card and the emu10k1 driver does not recognize the Audigy. I've searched online and also found an "emu10kx" driver written by some guy, but it doesn't recognize my specific chip id. Has anyone else had problems with these pieces of hardware, if so how did you fix it/could you fix it. If not, does anyone have a wireless card that they have working with FreeBSD so that I can go out and buy a different one with confidence? -- Brandon Beamer jinzougen@jinzougen.org
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Brandon Beamer wrote:> I'm running FreeBSD 5.4. I have a Soundblaster Audigy LS and a Netgear > WG311 v3 wireless PCI card. The ath driver does not recognize the > Netgear card and the emu10k1 driver does not recognize the Audigy. I've > searched online and also found an "emu10kx" driver written by some guy, > but it doesn't recognize my specific chip id.The WG311v3 card isn't Atheros, it looks like it may be a Marvell chip. The output of `pciconf -l` would be useful here. Have you tried the ndis driver?> Has anyone else had problems with these pieces of hardware, if so how > did you fix it/could you fix it. If not, does anyone have a wireless > card that they have working with FreeBSD so that I can go out and buy a > different one with confidence?Atheros cards are always highly commended... I've had good experience with Cisco cards. The WG311v1 is also an Atheros card, I believe. Gavin
From: Brandon Beamer> > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4. I have a Soundblaster Audigy LS and > a Netgear WG311 v3 wireless PCI card. The ath driver does not > recognize the Netgear cardThe WG311v3 doesn't use an Atheros chipset. You, like many others, are confused by companies like Netgear who, throughout the course of a specific model number's life, will use entirely different devices. The original WG311 (unmarked, but effectively "v1") used the Atheros 5212, which is supported by the ath driver. The WG311v3 uses the Prism GT which isn't supported. There was a third-party driver[1] for the Prism 54 family of wireless chips, but it appears to have mysteriously vanished, even from the Internet Archive, which says the pages were archived, but not indexed. You may find some leads through the Linux Prism 54 driver homepage[2]. Presently your only options are either the ndis Windows driver wrapper or using a different network card. [1] http://green.homeunix.org/~green/prism54-driver/pff/ [2] http://www.prism54.org/
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 09:04, Brandon Beamer wrote:> I'm running FreeBSD 5.4. I have a Soundblaster Audigy LS and a Netgear > WG311 v3 wireless PCI card. The ath driver does not recognize the > Netgear card and the emu10k1 driver does not recognize the Audigy. I've > searched online and also found an "emu10kx" driver written by some guy, > but it doesn't recognize my specific chip id. > > Has anyone else had problems with these pieces of hardware, if so how > did you fix it/could you fix it. If not, does anyone have a wireless > card that they have working with FreeBSD so that I can go out and buy a > different one with confidence?I got the OSS comercial sound driver to work with an Audigy sound card but it wouldn't work when running X windows so I ended up giving the card away. That was nearly a year ago, maybe now the OSS driver works better? ref: http://www.opensound.com/freebsd.html -Mike