Thanks for sharing your expierence.

I've only recently purchase a WIFI certified Ayava Silver wireless pcmcia card  
that, although not listed in the man-pages, works fine with NetBSD-current, 
see message log below:

Sep 10 07:41:38 husky /netbsd: pcmcia1: CIS version PC Card Standard 5.0
Sep 10 07:41:38 husky /netbsd: pcmcia1: CIS info: Avaya Communication, Avaya 
Wireless PC Card, Version 01.01,
Sep 10 07:41:38 husky /netbsd: pcmcia1: Manufacturer code 0x156, product 0x2
Sep 10 07:41:38 husky /netbsd: pcmcia1: function 0: network adapter, ccr addr 
3e0 mask 1
Sep 10 07:41:38 husky /netbsd: pcmcia1: function 0, config table entry 1: I/O 
card; irq mask ffff; iomask 6, iospace 0-3f; io16 irqpulse irqlevel
Sep 10 07:41:38 husky /netbsd: wi0 at pcmcia1 function 0: Avaya Communication, 
Avaya Wireless PC Card, Version 01.01
Sep 10 07:41:38 husky /netbsd: wi0: 802.11 address 00:02:2d:74:39:50
Sep 10 07:41:38 husky /netbsd: wi0: using Lucent Technologies, WaveLAN/IEEE
Sep 10 07:41:38 husky /netbsd: wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station (7.28.1)
Sep 10 07:41:38 husky /netbsd: wi0: supported rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 
11Mbps

This card sells for around US$30 on ebay australia.

cheerio Berndt

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 05:12 pm, you wrote:
> 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 0 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