Re: NetGear WG511T and WPA support on FreeBSD 8.2
Bought the card in the meantime and got done testing it. Works just fine. The card is specifically listed on: man 4 ath_hal Saw this later as I only checked man 4 ath... Thanks for the update though. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Hans Ottevanger h...@beastielabs.netwrote: On 01/13/12 22:17, _ wrote: Hi, Since I've run into problems getting an ndisgen generated driver for my Realtek RTL8185 54M to work on my FreeBSD 8.2 (i386) system - kldload on the driver generates a permanent kernel crash-, I am currently thinking about buying the NetGear WG511T PCMCIA bus driven card. I would like to ask if there are any users on this list that make use of this card and that can confirm whether or not this cards works fine alongside with WPA/WPA2 on 8.2 or 9.0 if I decide to upgrade? I am aware of the supported hardware list. The card in discussion is not listed as supported. However, this could still be the case, since I read in an older 7.0 related thread http://www.daemonforums.org/**showthread.php?t=1424http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1424that it did work, at least at one point in time. Thanks Hi, Maybe a bit late to react, but I have been traveling lately ... I have two WPA511T adapters (slightly different from the WG511T you refer to). I used them intensively for years in a pair of antique Toshiba laptops and they have actually always worked (since 6.x, I believe) without any issues and they still do with a recent 8.2-STABLE. I use wpa_supplicant, mostly with WPA2. It is recognized as follows: ath0: Atheros 5212 mem 0x8800-0x8800 irq 10 at device 0.0 on cardbus1 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: AR2413 mac 7.9 RF2413 phy 4.5 Of course there could still be PCMCIA issues on a different laptop, but since the WG511T also has an Atheros 5212 chipset and Atheros chipsets for 802.11g have excellent support in FreeBSD, I would expect it to work, even with a GENERIC kernel. Kind regards, Hans Ottevanger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: NetGear WG511T and WPA support on FreeBSD 8.2
On 01/13/12 22:17, _ wrote: Hi, Since I've run into problems getting an ndisgen generated driver for my Realtek RTL8185 54M to work on my FreeBSD 8.2 (i386) system - kldload on the driver generates a permanent kernel crash-, I am currently thinking about buying the NetGear WG511T PCMCIA bus driven card. I would like to ask if there are any users on this list that make use of this card and that can confirm whether or not this cards works fine alongside with WPA/WPA2 on 8.2 or 9.0 if I decide to upgrade? I am aware of the supported hardware list. The card in discussion is not listed as supported. However, this could still be the case, since I read in an older 7.0 related thread http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1424 that it did work, at least at one point in time. Thanks Hi, Maybe a bit late to react, but I have been traveling lately ... I have two WPA511T adapters (slightly different from the WG511T you refer to). I used them intensively for years in a pair of antique Toshiba laptops and they have actually always worked (since 6.x, I believe) without any issues and they still do with a recent 8.2-STABLE. I use wpa_supplicant, mostly with WPA2. It is recognized as follows: ath0: Atheros 5212 mem 0x8800-0x8800 irq 10 at device 0.0 on cardbus1 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: AR2413 mac 7.9 RF2413 phy 4.5 Of course there could still be PCMCIA issues on a different laptop, but since the WG511T also has an Atheros 5212 chipset and Atheros chipsets for 802.11g have excellent support in FreeBSD, I would expect it to work, even with a GENERIC kernel. Kind regards, Hans Ottevanger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: NetGear WG511T and WPA support on FreeBSD 8.2
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:17:54 +0100 pancakekin...@gmail.com articulated: Since I've run into problems getting an ndisgen generated driver for my Realtek RTL8185 54M to work on my FreeBSD 8.2 (i386) system - kldload on the driver generates a permanent kernel crash-, I am currently thinking about buying the NetGear WG511T PCMCIA bus driven card. I would like to ask if there are any users on this list that make use of this card and that can confirm whether or not this cards works fine alongside with WPA/WPA2 on 8.2 or 9.0 if I decide to upgrade? I am aware of the supported hardware list. The card in discussion is not listed as supported. However, this could still be the case, since I read in an older 7.0 related thread http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1424 that it did work, at least at one point in time. It's compliant with 802.11g standards and going for approximately $6.00 on EBay, so you really have nothing to lose by trying it. You should be able to ascertain the chip model and version easy enough once you get the device. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
