Re: WPC11 with Realtek chip

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd@2003.snew.com>]

One might return said card to the store and get something without
realtek involved.

Netgate will send you a lovely, powerful 802.11b card for
a good price (they gotta work on shipping costs, but...)

   http://www.netgate.com/EL2511.html

No realtek there.  And you support a small and pretty clever
company.

Quoting Diego Roberto Arimany (diegari@regent.edu):
> Hi,
> 
> I got a PCMCIA Linksys WPC11 (version 4) and as it was expected from 
> Linksys they changed the chip without changing the model of the 
> product.  It uses a Realtek 8139, which should use the rl* driver but 
> the dmesg output says that it is not configured.  I'll type in the 
> most relevant info about dmesg.
> 
> <-- START dmesg -->
> OpenBSD 3.3 (GENERIC) <- no patches applied
> bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(70) BIOS, date 08/23/99, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 
> 0xfd8a0
> pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0xfd8a0/0x760
> pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 @ 0xfdf60/128 (6 entries)
> pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 ("Intel 82371FB PCI-ISA" 
> rev 0x000)
> pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
> WARNING: can't reserve area for I/O APIC.
> bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xc000 0xdc000/0x4000!
> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
> ...
> cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
> cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 1 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattime 0x20
> pcmcia0 at cardslot0
> Realtek, Rtl8139, \M^?\M^? (manufacturer 0x0, product 0x0) 
> vendor "Realtek", unknown product 0x8180 (class network, subclass 
> ethernet, rev 0x20) at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0 not configured
> <-- END dmesg -->
> 
> How could I make it work since my return period has passed.  Or where 
> could I find documentation for making a driver. It could also be 
> defective hardware but I don't have another laptop to test it on.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Diego
> 
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