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From: "Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman" on 12 Jan 2007 12:27
On 01/12/2007 05:54 PM, Lars Stokholm wrote:
> On 2007-01-12, Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM(a)cto.homelinux.net> wrote:
>> You need to check if the said WLAN NIC is recognized by ath(4) driver:
>>
>> # gmesg |grep ^ath
>
> No results.

So, the said NIC is not based on Atheros chipset.

>> If the above does not reveal anything about ath[0-9], your NIC may not
>> be based on Atheros chipset.
>
> You may be right:
> http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility#SMCWPCIG/SMCWPCIGEU
>
> Damnit, I just bought it, specifically for FreeBSD. :(

Try pciinfo, to find the VendorID and ProductID info; this too can help
you to guess next possible driver for the said NIC.

>> BTW, is it possible you tell us more about your WLAN NIC; is it a
>> (Mini)-PCI and, or USB?
>
> PCI; this is the card:
> http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProduct&localeCode=EN_GBR&cid=5&scid=31&pid=1461

They do not have any mention on Atheros not even in the Data sheet for
this card.

[snipped]

> In any case, thank you for trying.

You're welocome!

IMHO, all the Compex range is based on Atheros chipsets.

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From: Lars Stokholm on 12 Jan 2007 18:57
On 2007-01-12, Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM(a)cto.homelinux.net> wrote:
> So, the said NIC is not based on Atheros chipset.

No, it's Realtek. Apparently newer versions of this card use Realtek
instead of Atheros. The text printed on the chip says "RLT8185L". I
didn't see that, until now.

Anyway, I tried ndis'ing it, but the kernel panics with "Fatal trap
12" (page fault), when I try to load the kernel module.
From: Torfinn Ingolfsen on 13 Jan 2007 02:45
Lars Stokholm wrote:
> No, it's Realtek. Apparently newer versions of this card use Realtek
> instead of Atheros. The text printed on the chip says "RLT8185L". I
> didn't see that, until now.

Ah. the curse of changing the hardware inside.
Since it is Realtek, have you tried the rl(4) or re(4) drivers?
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From: Lars Stokholm on 13 Jan 2007 04:29
On 2007-01-13, Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo(a)start.no> wrote:
> Since it is Realtek, have you tried the rl(4) or re(4) drivers?

Yeah, but the 8185L chip isn't supported. Also it fails to
load because "file exists"(?)
From: Torfinn Ingolfsen on 13 Jan 2007 06:31
Lars Stokholm wrote:
> On 2007-01-13, Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo(a)start.no> wrote:
>> Since it is Realtek, have you tried the rl(4) or re(4) drivers?
>
> Yeah, but the 8185L chip isn't supported. Also it fails to
> load because "file exists"(?)

That "files exists" thing usually means that the driver is compiled
into the kernel.

Looking a bit on Google, I have found this:
a Linux driver project: http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/

DragonflyBSD rtw driver "wants to support 8185L", but I do not know if
it is there yet:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2006-05/msg00128.html

Wikipedia doesn't have much either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Open_Source_Wireless_Drivers

Right now, it doesn't look to good.
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Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway
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