Brian,

     I have had tremendous success with the WMP11, version 3.  I'm sure
you could still find some of these cards at an online retailer, but
it might be difficult to be sure you're getting v3 and not v4 even if
the v3 SKU is listed on the site since the retailer might have sold
out of v3's and have forgotten to update the product code.  As usual,
eBay is probably the place to go.

     I found my WMP11v3 at BestBuy about six months ago and I've used it
at school ever since.  It has excellent range even though it's not
one of the more expensive class of wireless PCMCIA cards (like the
Cisco Aironet).  There are no problems with the wi driver and the
WMP11v3.

     Good luck!

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<quote who="Brian Stark">
> Hello,
>
> Lest someone else make the same mistake that I did today, I thought I'd
> pass on my experience with the Linksys WMP11 PCI 802.11b card.
>
> I thought I would experiment with a wireless network and picked up a
> Linksys WMP11 PCI card today. I selected this card because it was listed
> on the man page wi(4) as being supported:
>
> "Linksys Group, Inc. Instant Wireless Network WMP11 PCI Card"
>
> I built a new kernel, with the wi interface in it, installed it, and
> rebooted. What I saw was this:
>
> "unknown vendor 0x17fe product 0x2120 (ethernet network) at pci0 dev 16
> function  not configured"
>
> Sigh... so I said a few things I won't repeat here, and then yanked the
> card and inspected it. My card has the FCC-ID "Q87-WMP11V4". I'm guessing
> that the "V4" refers to version 4 of the card.
>
> I was surprised to see "unknown vendor" show up because I have a Linksys
> LNE100TX card in a few of my systems and they are identified correctly. I
> did some searching on the 'net and eventually I stumbled across:
>
>   http://www.pcisig.com/membership/vid_search/
>
> which told me that the vendor for this PCI card is a company called
> "InProComm, Inc." The have a web site at http://www.inprocomm.com
>
>>From past my experience with the Linksys LNE100TX card, Linksys seems to
> be in the habit of doing major redesigns of their cards with each new
> revision. If anyone is contemplating purchasing the WMP11 card for use
> with NetBSD, becareful since version 4 of the card won't work (I'm
> running -current). If you find a WMP11 card in a store, you can look at
> the code below the UPC symbol. My box says "WMP11 v4-PKG-30625c".
>
> If anyone can recommend wireless cards that work for them with NetBSD, and
> are readily available in the US, please let me know. I am in the market
> for one PCI wireless card, and one PCMCIA Type II card (not Cardbus!). I
> prefer 802.11g, but can use 802.11b.
>
> TIA,
>
> Brian Stark
> bpstark@pacbell.net
>