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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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