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From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
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On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:04:16AM -0700, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
> I'm using SONY VAIO Z1 series, and it seems that the
> built in wireless LAN isn't working properly. So I got
> a PC Card which is WaveLAN (Lucent), a bit old one but
> expect to work fine under FreeBSD 5.2.1.
> 
> I've enabled 'pccard' at rc.conf file and the kernel
> seems to load the 'wi' driver by default.
> 
> But the WaveLAN isn't working yet. Could anyone drive
> me in a good (complete) reference to get things
> working?
> 
> Cheers,
> SH-

Have you configured the wireless interface yet?

See:

	man ifconfig
	man wi

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould