Subject: Re: wifi card for netbsd on ibm z50
To: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
From: Thomas Bieg <tomsbsd04@tiscali.de>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 07/12/2005 22:09:27
Andy Ruhl wrote:
> Do you want to use the card with WinCE and NetBSD, or only with NetBSD?
>
> If only with NetBSD, I have a Linksys WPC11 V.3 that works fine.
>
> Andy
Why only NetBSD? The WPC11 (or WCF11, which is effectively the same from
the driver's point of view) has (had?) CE drivers that in fact worked for
every (non-Linksys) Prism 2/2.5 based card I tried them with.
Admittedly I'm not so sure if you can still get those drivers from the
current Linksys site, but I know they exist and they work.
Among the cards I tried were Netgear MA401 and Compaq WL100 cards, both
Prism2 IIRC, but theoretically any other 16-bit (non-Cardbus), 11 Mbps
Prism 2/2.5/3 PC Card should also work.
(Those Lucent/Agere/Avaya/whatever-they're-called-now 11 Mbps cards
should work as well, but I never actually tried them on a WinCE
platform.)
Regards,
Tom