From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 11 01:56:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23A616A40F for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:56:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30AD143D4C for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:56:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAB1ulWO024280; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:56:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id kAB1ukbj024277; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:56:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:56:46 -0500 (EST) From: doug@safeport.com X-X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Damian Wiest In-Reply-To: <20061111005109.GE25030@dfwdamian.vail> Message-ID: <20061110205532.E79214@fledge.watson.org> References: <454E09CF.70909@comcast.net> <20061111005109.GE25030@dfwdamian.vail> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Rem P Roberti , FreeBSD Subject: Re: Laptop Wireless X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: doug@fledge.watson.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:56:49 -0000 On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: >> Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old >> Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she >> upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. >> However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) >> notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate >> drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at >> the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at >> this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with >> respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the >> process understandable would be much appreciated. >> >> Rem > > Can you post the dmesg? > > Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably > use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings. > > -Damian http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN This indicates the ed driver works for this card.