Cool article, just one question: Are you sure the card was “Made in China” (and not in Taiwan)? I thought the Chinese-made v2 card uses a Prism chipset, whereas the Taiwanese one uses Libertas.
Absolutly sure. The Chinese one definitly uses the Libertas chipset. I know that there is some information in the Internet which says the opposite, but I own a v2 “Made in China” and its def. a Marvell Libertas chipset.
Btw, I am currently trying to port the malo driver to FreeBSD.
Do you have any experimental stuff for freebsd? I have one of this cards, and I’m using a FreeBSD 6.2 system in an AMD64 chipset. I can try this module (if exist) in this environment. Thanks in advance.
I recently had no time to continue porting the driver but I expect to have some time to work on it in the 2nd week of august. Ping me again then if you want.
[...] the fact that it is supported under OpenBSD, and that the chipset is known for being closed. This article discusses the author’s experiences with the Netgear WG511 v2 (perhaps one of the most common [...]
hi khan, have you had time to get a driver together for fbsd? with the 7.0 release, i’m running out of reasons to try fbsd as they’ve integrated macppc support, and malo is the only way i can get this card to work (ndiswrapper isnt even an option on non-x86 architectures).
nice work, dude
Cool article, just one question: Are you sure the card was “Made in China” (and not in Taiwan)? I thought the Chinese-made v2 card uses a Prism chipset, whereas the Taiwanese one uses Libertas.
Absolutly sure. The Chinese one definitly uses the Libertas chipset. I know that there is some information in the Internet which says the opposite, but I own a v2 “Made in China” and its def. a Marvell Libertas chipset.
Btw, I am currently trying to port the malo driver to FreeBSD.
Do you have any experimental stuff for freebsd? I have one of this cards, and I’m using a FreeBSD 6.2 system in an AMD64 chipset. I can try this module (if exist) in this environment. Thanks in advance.
I recently had no time to continue porting the driver but I expect to have some time to work on it in the 2nd week of august. Ping me again then if you want.
[...] the fact that it is supported under OpenBSD, and that the chipset is known for being closed. This article discusses the author’s experiences with the Netgear WG511 v2 (perhaps one of the most common [...]
hi khan, have you had time to get a driver together for fbsd? with the 7.0 release, i’m running out of reasons to try fbsd as they’ve integrated macppc support, and malo is the only way i can get this card to work (ndiswrapper isnt even an option on non-x86 architectures).
i’ll check back on this blog; thanks!