On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 22:22, Chris.H <bsd.ch...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Greetings, > Over the past year, in an effort to convert my server farm to wireless, I've > purchased some half a dozen USB wireless dongles, at a total cost of ~150.00. > Unfortunately, none of them are (yet) supported — I know, I know, I've > already had this debate with both dev's, & users. On the up-side, I've > devised a resource that will greatly assist would-be adopters in selecting, > and researching these, and other adapters _currently supported_ under under > FreeBSD. That said; the adapter I most recently purchased, is quite nice > (Cisco(Linksys) AE2500 Wireless-N). > [..] > idVendor = 0x13b1 > idProduct = 0x003a > bcdDevice = 0x0001 > iManufacturer = 0x0001 <Cisco> > iProduct = 0x0002 <Linksys AE2500> > iSerialNumber = 0x0003 <000000000001> > bNumConfigurations = 0x0001
Seems to be Broadcom based, BCM43236[1]. I'm afraid, you won't have much fun which that thing.. though, afaik Linux' brcm80211[2] supports it. If you want to port that driver, by all means, go for it! The license looks pretty useful at least. [1] http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Linksys_AE2500 [2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;a=blob_plain;f=drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c;hb=HEAD -- Bernhard _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
