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| author | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-02-27 20:37:03 +0000 |
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| committer | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-02-27 20:37:03 +0000 |
| commit | ddd154ca29c39699d4f8f016f9c736c401f0fd6c (patch) | |
| tree | 00a2114cfb8836a027cf146767788ab8417f9162 /share/man/man4/wi.4 | |
| parent | 89bdff5b1210215f003beccf8cc21648d1ca86ae (diff) | |
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Document the hand springs that you need to go through to use a WL200
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/wi.4 b/share/man/man4/wi.4 index dc6b988..7251c98 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/wi.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/wi.4 @@ -333,3 +333,13 @@ mode. Not all the new messages are documented here, and many of them are indications of transient errors that are not indications of serious problems. +.Pp +WL200 PCI wireless cards are based on a Cirrus Logic CL-PD6729 bridge +chips glued to an intersil prism2 pcmcia chipset w/o the PC Card +form factor being present. +These chips are special and require special care to use properly. +One must set hw.pcic.pd6729_intr_path="2" in /boot/loader.conf. +This tells the pccard system to use PCI interrupts for this odd beast. +It is not possible to know automatically which kind of interrupts to use. +OLDCARD devices (pcic and card) support this device. +NEWCARD devices (cbb and pccard) do not support it at this time. |
