freebsd stable - Oct 2008 - LevelOne WPC-0301 11g Wireless CardBus

Hello,

I bought a LevelOne WPC-0301 11g Wireless CardBus Adapter
today.  According to the box it is "v6".  The ral(4) man-
page mentions only v2, but that one is ancient and can't
be bought anymore.

So, enabling the debug sysctl gives this in dmesg:

cardbus0: Expecting link target, got 0x0
cardbus0: <network, ethernet> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
cardbus0: CIS pointer is 0x102
cardbus0: CIS in BAR 0x14
cardbus0: Expecting link target, got 0x0
cardbus0: Warning: Bogus CIS ignored
cardbus0: <network, ethernet> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)

I tried the card in a different notebook, same thing.

Anything I can do, except drop the new card in the dustbin?
:-(

Best regards
   Oliver

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Oliver wrote:
 > I bought a LevelOne WPC-0301 11g Wireless CardBus Adapter
 > today.  According to the box it is "v6".  The ral(4) man-
 > page mentions only v2, but that one is ancient and can't
 > be bought anymore.

I do not know about the WPC-0301, but I since I bought a wrong WNC-0301 
(PCI version), I did some research looking at the IDs and additionally 
Windows drivers: v.1 is Marvel, v.2 is the old Ralink, v.3 is the never 
Ralink, and v.5  (and v.6?) is RealTek. (v.4 does not have a Windows 
driver at the LevelOne homepage.)

BTW: I did summit this info to http://linux-wless.passys.nl/ -- it is a 
pretty good overview, especially if you want to check which vendors 
switch chipset manufacturers from one revision to the next.

My guess would be that you are out of luck, if it is not detected at 
7-STABLE. Look at the sys files in the Windows driver, if there is one. 
Of course, you can try ndis, but I would not go for it.

If you shop for a card, most of the 108Mbps are Atheros, which works 
better than Ralink in my experience. Since you are from Germany, too: 
geizhals.at lists TP-Link TL-WN610G for less than 15 Euros, which has an 
Atheros chipset according to the site I mentioned above. If you are 
looking on Ebay, I can really recommend Philips SNN6500, which does 
a/b/g and the proprietary Atheros stuff (TURBOP, BURST).

Cheers,
Jan Henrik