Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:48:16 -0500 From: Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> To: vishal asthana <asthana@usc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless card in a PCI slot doesnt work !! Message-ID: <20011106114816.A3768@andale.vindaloo.com> In-Reply-To: <000a01c15f80$d75c7d60$f6e37d80@shruti>; from asthana@usc.edu on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:19:10AM -0700 References: <000a01c15f80$d75c7d60$f6e37d80@shruti>
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:19:10AM -0700, vishal asthana wrote:
> hi,
> I am trying to get a Lucent Orinoco 11 Mbps Wireless
> card up and running in a PCI slot on a m/c running freeBSD.
>
> The card is working fine since I tested it on a Laptop running Windows ME,
> but I am unable to check it on the BSD machine. It is being detected
> during boot-up but I am not able to ping it.
>
> What is the problem ??
>
The problem could be one of several things. In order:
o You need to make sure that the PCI to PCMCIA/Cardbus bridge card is
properly detected and functioning. There were problems with the PCI
versions of these cards a few months ago so double check to make sure
that yours is supported.
o You should make sure that the pccardd daemon is started and running on
your machine.
o Finally you should make sure that the pccardd has a good idea of
which resources (IRQ, I/O ports, DMA channels, and Memory buffers) are
available on your machine.
The Orinoco card is pretty standard so it should
be detected by pccardd and attached to a wi device in your kernel without
too much trouble but if any of the things listed above are broken then the
card ``won't work''.
Also, I'm not trying to be mean but you should include a copy of the output
from dmesg and uname in your post so that we can see what you see. Finally,
wrap the text in your posting at column 72 when you post here. Some of us
are still using Unix text based mailers like Mutt, Pine, and Elm
--
Chris Hilton chilton-at-vindaloo-dot-com
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