From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 29 10:34:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6323616A407 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:34:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jpn@doom.fi) Received: from pne-smtpout4-sn1.fre.skanova.net (pne-smtpout4-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F383043D49 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:34:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpn@doom.fi) Received: from [80.223.123.167] (80.223.123.167) by pne-smtpout4-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.075) id 44A36A0A003D8B7C for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:34:16 +0200 Message-ID: <451CF6A7.6000506@doom.fi> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:34:15 +0300 From: "Jussi, Petteri Nummikko" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Linksys WPC55AG wireless on 6.1 release ver 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jpn@doom.fi List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:34:18 -0000 Jeremy Windsor wrote: > This is my first time ever emailing something or posting something like > this. Sorry if I sound like a noob. > > I have a linksys WPC55AG wifi card in my laptop. when i boot up with the > default kernel it finds cbb0, pccard0, and cardbus0. i found the ath > drivers and added the 3 lines from man ath into a CUSTOM kernel file which i > cp from GENERIC kernel. i recompiled the kernel using CUSTOM. i then added > the ath driver load line to loader.conf in the /boot folder. > > I still can not get the wireless card to power up. When I plug it in, the > green link light flashes then goes off, and I hear my speaker of my pc > click. But it never shows in dmesg or in /dev/net. > > Am I doing something wrong? This is an alienware laptop M7700 with pentium > 4 3.4ghz, and everything except my sound card is working fine. If you compile the ath stuff into kernel, you don't need to load the modules anymore with loader.conf. And have you compiled wlan support into kernel? If so, you could check with pciconf if you even have a supported chip in the card. It's normal to see some "cardbus" stuff when booting even if your card wasn't going to get any driver attached to it. I've been compiling only wlan into kernel and loaded the other modules by hand when needed, but that's just a matter of personal preference mostly. But atleast with ndis it's handy sometimes to just unload the ndis modules when the card goes nuts.