Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:04:08 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Lars Hederidder <coder@worldwidewhat.dk> Subject: Re: Wireless PCMIA problems Message-ID: <200502151104.08494.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <200502151740.57083.coder@worldwidewhat.dk> References: <200502151740.57083.coder@worldwidewhat.dk>
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On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:40 am, Lars Hederidder wrote: > Hey, > > I have a 3Com 3CRSHPW_96 Wireless PCMIA card for my laptop. > However I'm a newbie at using PCMIA cards on FreeBSD. > > BSD finds the card when I plug it in, but it doesn't show up when > I use the ifconfig command. > > Can anyone help me with this problem, so I can get it up and running. > The system is a fresh installed FreeBSD 5.3 > > Thanks in advance > Lars When you say FreeBSD "sees" the card, do you mean it is associated with a device, or just that the card's name appears in dmesg? It would appear, from the email message link below, that this card requires the use of it's Windows drivers. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2004-September/004804.html Follow the link below to the online handbook's chapter on wireless networking. Read the whole chapter; but pay particular attention to section 25.3.3.6.3, toward the bottom, regarding the NDISulator. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould
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