Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:37:20 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MSI Wind X340 setup ? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108031434280.14166@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <22251.1312393757@tristatelogic.com> References: <22251.1312393757@tristatelogic.com>
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On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I am trying to do a rush job here, installing freeBSD 8.2-RELEASE onto > a spare partition on am MSI Wind X340 laptop. > > So far, I got the OS installed OK, but I have no idea how to properly > configure in order to get the built-in wireless to work. Any help, > hints, clues, or whatever would be appreciated, as long as they arrive > today befor 4PM PDT (after which I will be offline). > > I guess the main problem is that I don't even know the device name. > I did: > > dmesg | fgrep -i wireless > > and got nothing, so I don't even know what device I need to be ifconfig'ing > for. # pciconf -lv Or if it's USB like some internal devices, # usbconfig and then # usbconfig -d 1.2 dump_device_desc where 1.2 is the USB address. Short form wireless setup here: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html
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