From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 20:54:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E34F31065673 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:54:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from besideinfo@yahoo.com) Received: from n74c.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (n74c.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [98.136.45.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9C108FC22 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:54:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from besideinfo@yahoo.com) Received: from [216.252.122.219] by n74.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Apr 2008 20:54:52 -0000 Received: from [69.147.84.109] by t4.bullet.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Apr 2008 20:54:52 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp207.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Apr 2008 20:54:52 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-5 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 655537.89054.bm@omp207.mail.sp1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 34727 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Apr 2008 20:54:52 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=m7pRSiwekbqzzh4+niu+wgakSMw9BoF1B7g/eTpEUP6Rv8xdMrukL4OAFSACd8/ne/WmFj7KdUZHLgdR7OqHtBNe91N9eoAVbMK2Rv+Z7kXxYQ2524PFF9akFObrUY/PYhJaFOQ/03KTnIFCejMSZ06VCzUsiDiFtMITpwJ+pvc=; X-YMail-OSG: dEcKHBcVM1kGOwdAywEdS8z96sgBVWaYnWoUklAwltc0wHD8_6NHNytWOMXNor_o67EXgDQ0PBZubkFQkmMAACSFqxbsI.UNokhtuP0t8HmEK0hLmao- Received: from [151.92.176.5] by web43141.mail.sp1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:54:52 PDT Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:54:52 -0700 (PDT) From: besideinfo To: Ian Smith , Benjamin Close In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <549501.34648.qm@web43141.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Cc: Andrey , sam@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Yousif Hassan , besideinfo Subject: Re: Wireless on hp 6710b X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:54:53 -0000 --- Ian Smith wrote: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Benjamin Close wrote: > > besideinfo wrote: > > > --- Yousif Hassan > wrote: > > > > > > > > >> I don't really understand what you mean here. > Do > > >> you mean they do not show > > >> up in kldstat at all, or that they do show up > in > > >> kldstat but are still > > >> "missing" in terms of being attached? (Both > > >> scenarios possible). > > [..] > > To besideinfo: > > In which case you should use kldstat -v to show all > in-kernel modules. > This can be a big list, so perhaps best search for > 'missing' ones with: > > kldstat -v | egrep 'wpi|wlan' > > If they're there then there's no need to load them > in /boot/loader.conf > > cheers, Ian > As you asked following the output for kldstat -v | egrep 'wpi|wlan' freebsd-box# kldstat -v | egrep 'wpi|wlan' 5 5 0xc07c7000 1edf8 wlan.ko 4 wlan 7 1 0xc07e8000 26414 wpifw.ko 5 wpifw_fw 8 1 0xc080f000 1b10 wlan_xauth.ko 6 wlan_xauth 9 1 0xc0811000 2d08 wlan_wep.ko 7 wlan_wep 10 1 0xc0814000 6d04 wlan_ccmp.ko 8 wlan_ccmp 11 1 0xc081b000 4000 wlan_tkip.ko 9 wlan_tkip I try to use kldload, and the result make me believe that I'm missing the wpi driver or part of it. freebsd-box# kldload if_wpi kldload: can't load if_wpi: No such file or directory freebsd-box# kldload wlan_scan_sta kldload: can't load wlan_scan_sta: No such file or directory I'm thinking to reinstall freebsd maybe I did something wrong from the beginning. greetings __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com