From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 11 02:13:07 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 8945916A403 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:13:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwiest@vailsys.com) Received: from cprobd02.vailsys.com (cprobd02.vailsys.com [63.210.102.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F8CD43D45 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:13:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwiest@vailsys.com) Received: from dfsfbd06.vail (dfsfbd06.vail [192.168.129.190]) by cprobd02.vailsys.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D69E4CE50F for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:13:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from dfwdamian.vail (dfwdamian.vail [192.168.129.233]) by dfsfbd06.vail (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90859323E8A for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:13:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from dfwdamian.vail (dwiest@localhost.vail [127.0.0.1]) by dfwdamian.vail (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kAB2D6aM016262 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:13:06 -0600 (CST) Received: (from dwiest@localhost) by dfwdamian.vail (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id kAB2D6MO020667 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:13:06 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: dfwdamian.vail: dwiest set sender to dwiest@vailsys.com using -f Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:13:06 -0600 From: Damian Wiest To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061111021306.GH25030@dfwdamian.vail> References: <454E09CF.70909@comcast.net> <20061111005109.GE25030@dfwdamian.vail> <20061110205532.E79214@fledge.watson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061110205532.E79214@fledge.watson.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Subject: Re: Laptop Wireless X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:13:07 -0000 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