Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:27:46 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Benjamin Hyatt <benski@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 802.11b Message-ID: <200105101827.f4AIRkc28970@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "08 May 2001 00:33:45 PDT." <989307260.1912.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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Most of the wireless support folks hang out at freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org. You would probably be most successful asking there. > From: Benjamin Hyatt <benski@pacbell.net> > Date: 08 May 2001 00:33:45 -0700 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > I'd like to get this working on FreeBSD if it is possible. I did some > searching around, and it looks like there is support for other vendor > cards, i.e aironet, lucent orinco etc?? > > While on the subject of pc cards... does the current 4.3 have support > for cardbus? I've got a cardbus 3com 10/100 modem card that I was not > able to get working on a earlier install attempt. > > If anyone has some tips/pointers that would be great. The first thing to do is to look at /etc/defaults/pccard.conf. See if your card is listed. IF not, make sure that you have the very latest Stable version. Support for pccards is increasing continually and you may well have a card that was added day before yesterday (or last night). If you find your card, you are home free! You probably also want to plug in you card and see if it loads a driver. If it does not, issue the command: "pccardc dumpcis SLOT" where SLOT is 0 or 1. Send the output to the mobile list in hopes that it is identical to a supported card from another vendor. If it is, it only requires a 3 or 4 line entry in /etc/pccard.conf. (This should also trigger its addition to the standard distribution so that the next guy with the same card will have it work right off the bat. If the dumpcis fails, the problem is most likely either a memory or IRQ conflict. IRQ 9 is free more than most on laptops, so you might want to create /etc/pccard.conf with the line "irq 9" at the top. This should be enough to get things working. FreeBSD V4.3 does not support CardBus. It is supported (though still under development) in current and will be in either V5.0 or a V4.x release late in the year. I'd bet it will be at least 4 or 5 months, but I'm not writing the code. Pccard support is not a strong suit for FreeBSD, but it is improving very quickly and I am running on my laptop with an 802.11b link from my family room couch with great results, so it's not too bad. Good luck! R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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