I have a $20 Trendware TEW-228PI with a Realtek 8180 802.11b chipset on board. I have successfully installed the device driver from www.realtek.com.tw (XP/version 166) using if_ndis. To do this I upgraded my 5.2.1-STABLE to 5.0-CURRENT, which I understand isn't required, and then built the driver following Bill Paul's directions. I had never installed a wireless driver under FreeBSD before so the only confusing item was that the device would come up a few seconds after ifconfig inet x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x ssid xxx. I also should point out that you can't configure two interfaces on the same subnet under FreeBSD so if you are hard wired to a wireless router you need to take care with addressing. Thanks for the great work on Project Evil! EricReceived on Thu Mar 11 2004 - 05:18:32 UTC
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