freebsd stable - Aug 2008 - Wireless net Card

I downloaded the drivers for the chipset my belkin wireless card has, used 
ndisgen to create the kernel module, which all went aok .. however when 
trying to load the module it hard hangs the machine to the point of it 
restarting itself .. is there something i perhaps mybe missing or am i out in 
the cold in not being able to use this wireless card untill some time a 
freebsd driver is done ?

> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:33:54 +1000
> From: Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com>
> I downloaded the drivers for the chipset my belkin wireless card has, used
> ndisgen to create the kernel module, which all went aok .. however when
> trying to load the module it hard hangs the machine to the point of it
> restarting itself .. is there something i perhaps mybe missing or am i out
in
> the cold in not being able to use this wireless card untill some time a
> freebsd driver is done ?
>
Which Belkin wireless card do you have? Which arch are you running (i386/amd64)?

I had horrific trouble with a Belkin on the Realtek chipset, played up
with Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Fedora, even Windows!

Trouble with Belkin is, you never know what you're getting. You need
the revision number of the card, and then find out which chipset it
is. Make sure the drivers you downloaded are for that exact revision.

Hope you have more luck than I did, I tossed mine and bought a Ralink.

Chris

> Please provide more detailed informatio. Card model, at least, or the
> output of
>
>      pciconf -lv
>
> supposing that you have a real card, either internal or PCMCIA. If it
> is a USB model, then use
>
>      usbdevs -v

none1@pci0:3:5:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x700f1799 chip=0x700f1799 
rev=0x20 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Belkin Research and Development Labs'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet


Chipset is RT8185L an i used the ndisgen to create the .ko file, which is just 
over 572kb in size.

ironically the 8180 works fine, but naturally wont do my wireless card.