Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:25:36 +0200 From: Mathias Samuelson <mathias.samuelson@proact.se> To: soohyun_choi@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wireless LAN Message-ID: <41095D40.70805@proact.se>
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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-
I sent this in reply to an earlier post, but failed to cc the list. It's
not complete, but until you get better information perhaps it can help
you out a bit:
I have MA401 and it's working without any problems now. I started out
with pccardd starting with configuration file, rather than using the
default one. That didn't work so well, so in /etc/rc.conf I now have:
pccard_enable="YES"
pccard_mem="DEFAULT"
pccard_beep="2"
pccard_ifconfig="NO"
pccardd_flags=""
pccard_ether_delay="5"
My understanding is that with this setup, pccardd will look for the file
/etc/defaults/pccard.conf, then it might be the case (sorry for not
being more knowledgable in this area) that it will read
/etc/pccard.conf. Anyway, I have one and it looks like this:
# Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE
card "Lucent Technologies" "WaveLAN/IEEE"
config 0x1 "wi0" 11
insert echo WaveLAN/IEEE inserted
insert /etc/pccard_ether wi0
remove echo WaveLAN/IEEE removed
remove /sbin/ifconfig wi0 delete
# Netgear MA401
card "NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC" "Card"
config auto "wi" ? 0x10000
insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
Now, when I insert the card, after a few seconds the card shows up in
ifconfig.
I hope this helps out a bit. And oh, I'm on 4.10-STABLE
Best regards
Mathias
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