From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 02:56:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B0A816A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:56:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.raught.net (pcp0010251116pcs.lpaxtn01.pa.comcast.net [68.36.104.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B042043D49 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:56:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mraught@acm.org) Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([10.0.0.52]) by www.raught.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j2A2jtCg018653 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:46:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <422F8471.6040006@acm.org> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:19:13 -0500 From: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041204 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mobile@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Activate wireless on Gateway 7325GZ X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:56:13 -0000 I have a Gateway 7325GZ. I can't get the wireless activated from FreeBSD 5.3 or the FreeSBIE CD. In windows X(tra)P(oopy) (which I refuse to use!) I need to hit Fn-F2 and it enables the wireless card which then is enabled every time ms-crap loads. Unfotunately the key combination does nothing in FreeBSD. Is there a fix for this, or a different way to activate the card using ifconfig or maybe acpi?!?! The card is a broadcom card which may or may not be supported, but the main thing is to get the wireless to come up, then I can think about making sure I have (or get) a supported card. I can currently use a pc card, but I hate the fact that I have mini-pci and have to use a pc card. Sorry for the MS bashing above, but I get so frustrated when stuff like this is built towards MS without any consideration for other OSes. I didn't think to check for something like this and was so happy when I found a pretty good laptop at a decent price that didn't have any problems with the FreeSBIE CD when I tried it at the store. I thought the wireless not showing up would be a worst case of buy a new minipci card that will work. I never expected something like this! AARRRGH! thanks, -mark