From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 15:57:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCDC616A412 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:57:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfcheng@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594D943C9F for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:57:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tfcheng@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so1125505uge for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:57:30 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=eK5whWIrTAkOLC/V8ENxf4ZR4J10+tgChh9r3bdWOKnCmcNItuTGPOjaiafOCWrbtIUmN/Vp5qyNcr/2d3yH+x130adQcXaptFi35K0Vm4Y0yh1XVi8jO0zjPUCHOoRNndKv5ClFtGinaW3g0RDYw+NyJcnfJfgknGFWcF4Vw58= Received: by 10.78.97.7 with SMTP id u7mr1798772hub.1166371049937; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:57:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.107.19 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:57:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:57:29 -0500 From: "Tsu-Fan Cheng" To: "Jonathan Horne" In-Reply-To: <200612170924.04791.freebsd@dfwlp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200612170002.11022.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <200612170107.05883.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <20061217205339.019bc0f6.nick@nickwithers.com> <200612170924.04791.freebsd@dfwlp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i finally got wireless working 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: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:57:35 -0000 hi... I would like to ask a wireless problem but has little to do with the article here... i want to setup my desktop to use wireless, but there doesn't seem to have a lot of wireless PCI card supported available, and the supported ones are quite expensive... I wonder if there is a more updated hardware list about the supported PCI card?? thank you!! TFC On 12/17/06, Jonathan Horne wrote: > > On Sunday 17 December 2006 03:53, Nick Withers wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:07:05 -0600 > > > > Jonathan Horne wrote: > > (snip) > > > > > one big mistake i made, was building world up to 6.2-RC1. there > > > was one good article about installing freebsd on an ibm t42 (found > > > it on google), but it didnt have any info on getting wireless to > > > auto start. after i had wireless manually up and running > > > initially, i then built world, and updated. next boot, firmware > > > and modules would not load. i had tweaked some other things, so i > > > backed those changes off, and worked round and round until i > > > decided to just do a quick reinstall. this time, i didnt use > > > 6.1-RELEASE, but i did 6.2-RC1. same behavior, and this is when i > > > figured out that the only time it really worked like the web page > > > depicted, was when i was on 6.1-RELEASE. so i tried cvsuping to > > > -p11, and things still worked fine. this is the only laptop i have > > > (thus, my only wireless computer), so when 6.2 comes out, ill be > > > pretty nervous about upgrading until i read that everything i > > > kosher with iwi- support. > > > > It works fine. > > > > Please see the UPDATING entry from the 2006-07-11, i.e.: > > ____ > > > > 20060711: > > The iwi(4) was updated to use the firmware(9) framework. In > order > > for it to work you need a port change from net/iwi-firmware to > > net/iwi-firmware-kmod. > > ____ > > ah, thanks nick, i didnt remember to check that. i wonder how safe it > would > be to switch the port out before i make the change to 6.2? maybe ill play > with that later today. > > also, is there a gui app to help manage wireless networks? > > cheers, > jonathan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >