From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 19:18:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464111065673 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 19:18:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from walterk1@earthlink.net) Received: from pop-borzoi.atl.sa.earthlink.net (pop-borzoi.atl.sa.earthlink.net [207.69.195.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1709F8FC15 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 19:18:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from walterk1@earthlink.net) Received: from user-0c6slfc.cable.mindspring.com ([24.110.85.236] helo=[192.168.0.100]) by pop-borzoi.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1JwiyK-0007Ot-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 15:18:36 -0400 Message-ID: <482C8C8C.7050903@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 14:18:36 -0500 From: Walter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <482B2020.4030706@earthlink.net> <20080514181828.GA56648@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <482C248D.9030708@earthlink.net> <20080515085118.15a54b72@scorpio> <482C672C.4020107@earthlink.net> <20080515144747.71807167@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20080515144747.71807167@scorpio> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Does FBSD 7 support 802.11N cards? G suggestions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 19:18:37 -0000 Gerard wrote: > <>On Thu, 15 May 2008 11:39:08 -0500 > Walter wrote:I found the direction at 11.8.1 > helpful, and was able to use /ndisgen/ > <>and /kldload/ to bring up the card. (Yea!) > > Now I need to configure it - I'm printing out 29.3 now. But I can't > get the interface to be brought up at boot, a la: > > ---- > > You can configure the system to load the NDIS modules at boot time in > the same way as with any other module. First, copy the generated > module, W32DRIVER.ko, to the /boot/modules directory. Then, add the > following line to /boot/loader.conf: > > W32DRIVER_load="YES" > > > ---- > > but I can bring it up manually from the modules directory. > > Can anyone tell me what's wrong? > > >Have you checked user/group ownership? I think it has to be root/wheel. >It should also be executable, 0755 if I remember correctly. > >Are there any warning or error messages displayed at boot-up that might >indicate what is happening? > > > Sorry for not checking that this made it to the List. I had "replied" to myself and the reply didn't go to Question... I had a typo... And, actually, it seems to work now. !!!!