Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:24:44 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: David Cramblett <david@axisintegrated.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WaveLan IEEE Wireless PC Card Setup Message-ID: <200105152324.f4FNOic23903@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 May 2001 11:11:50 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105151107080.90800-100000@java2.dpcsys.com>
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> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:11:50 -0700 (PDT) > From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > On May 15, David Cramblett wrote: > >I am trying to setup an Lucent Technologies/Orinoco WaveLAN Wireless IEEE 802.11b card. I saw in the kernel config file that there was support for this type of card and I had hoped that it would detect the card on install and I would only have to do some small amount configuration. I have since discovered that it is not that simple. I have found the "pccard.conf" and "rc.pccard" files. I added the startup options into my rc.conf and on boot up it attempts to start pccardd, but say's card is not configured. > > > >oh, and I am using a ISA PMCIA socket adapter card into which the WaveLAN card plugs into, not a Laptop. > > > >I would appreciate any insight or documentation anyone may have on setting up such a device. > > My guess would be that it is pccard support (lack thereof) in your kernel that > is causing a problem. Take a look at > > http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/FreeBSD/163/0/3788553/+wi0:+No+irq%3F!%0A&hl=en > > for a description of setting up a desktop with the Orinoco cards. > > On my laptop I just added a > > insert /etc/setup_$device > > to the pccard.conf entry for the WaveLAN card and put all my > wicontrol statements in that file. Rebooted and I was on the > wireless lan. Easier than the Macs and W95 PCs I had setup earlier. While this does worked, the official way to do this is with the /etc/start_if.wi0 file (assuming the card is wi0.) Also, the default for FreeBSD is now to start in BSS (infrastructure) mode, so it works out of the box if you have a base station. If you want to run ad-hoc you will need to create the above mentioned file with a call to wicontrol to set the card to ad-hoc. The most common problem is the IRQ allocation which is very kludgey in FreeBSD at this time. Try to find a free IRQ. 9 and 10 are most likely to be free. You can scan through dmesg output for IRQs in use. Then create /etc/pccard.conf and put a line: irq 9 10 changing 9 and 10 to appropriate IRQs for your system. (You can have a list of 1 or more entries, but with only one entry, you can use only one pccard at a time. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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