From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 20:28:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B3437B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:28:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD85843F3F for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:28:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4F57E51980; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:58:05 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:58:05 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Mable Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless install Message-ID: <20030213042805.GG33800@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030212154315.24991.qmail@web10101.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NY6JkbSqL3W9mApi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030212154315.24991.qmail@web10101.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --NY6JkbSqL3W9mApi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 12 February 2003 at 7:43:15 -0800, Mable wrote: > HELP! I'm VERY new to freebsd. I just got an IBM Thinkpad 755ce (not > my first choice for computers, but hopefully better than nothing), > and I have a Lucent Tehnologies Orinoco Silver wireless card. I've > read things that say people have been able to get freebsd to work > with wireless, but with older versions of freebsd. Is it best for me > to use freebsd 4.7-stable or is it ok to go with 5.0? Also, do I > need extra drivers, etc, or should it automaticly detect the card? Under 5.0, it should automatically detect the card. Under 4.x, you will have to at least enable pccardd in /etc/rc.conf. You may also have to do other tweaking, though with the Orinoco card that's unlikely. Start with an unencrypted connection. Once you have that up and running, you can try other things. Note that wicontrol is going away in the not too distant future in release 5. ifconfig can already do most things. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --NY6JkbSqL3W9mApi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+Sx7VIubykFB6QiMRAl8kAKCr1gzj7Dj0ybaaNNy1YvlMtijR9gCggKXH kq6KTjo6WiNC5YGt3Vw1j+k= =jQAC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NY6JkbSqL3W9mApi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message