Netgear WG511 intersil 3886 chipset

[davidgurvich]

Is there a native driver for this pcmcia card in FreeBSD 8? I recall using ndis with issues in the past. The card is supported on linux with the p54pci driver and manual installation of firmware.

 

[SirDice]

Try the wi(4) driver.

 

[davidgurvich]

I thought I tried that and nothing happened. I'll give that another try when I get home and post the results.

 

[SirDice]

Not sure it works though, but it's the only driver I could find with a similar chipset. YMMV.

 

[davidgurvich]

wi is not the driver for this card. There is a driver for the usb version of the chipset, if_upgt, included in freebsd but not the pcmcia or pci version. Openbsd has a pgt driver that may be ported at some point.

 

[richardpl]

Is there a native driver for this pcmcia card in FreeBSD 8? I recall using ndis with issues in the past. The card is supported on linux with the p54pci driver and manual installation of firmware.

What issues?

 

[davidgurvich]

Random dropping of connections, system freezing, occasional crash and no suspend. Plus it ran very hot.

 

[richardpl]

Then port of pgt(4) is only reliable option.

I dont have pcmcia wireless cards to test ndis(4), and I think that ndis(4) never worked correctly on pcmcia ...