Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:13:06 -0600 From: Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop Wireless Message-ID: <20061111021306.GH25030@dfwdamian.vail> In-Reply-To: <20061110205532.E79214@fledge.watson.org> References: <454E09CF.70909@comcast.net> <20061111005109.GE25030@dfwdamian.vail> <20061110205532.E79214@fledge.watson.org>
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On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:56:46PM -0500, doug@safeport.com wrote: > > > 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. I don't think so :) There are _no_ Belkin cards listed in the WLAN section of that page. In any case, isn't ed for ethernet nics? -Damian
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