Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:24:06 -0800 From: richard childers <fscked@pacbell.net> To: Shane Hickey <shane@howsyournetwork.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM T30? Message-ID: <3E025516.1B96801A@pacbell.net> References: <1040332423.1281.73.camel@daneel.volumen.net>
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If I parse the ordering of your sentence elements, below, correctly, then the following events occurred, in the following order. (1) You received an IBM T30. (2) You installed FreeBSD 4.7. (3) The wireless card did not seem to be enabled after rebooting. (4) You tested this by installing a removable, but in all other respects identical, card, but you were still unable to access a wireless network. (5) You enabled pccardd(8). (6) You now saw that you were able to access the wireless network. (7) You inferred that (6) was a consequence of (4). I wonder if, instead, (6) is a consequence of (5). If we assume that (5), rather than (4), was the decisive element, then the question can be asked: if you have two identical cards, how do you know which one is in use by the operating system? It may be that both cards work but whichever card has higher priority in the laptop architecture, is probed first, responds first, and fills the niche reserved for ar0 first. It's not unlikely that the external card bay might have higher priority than the hardwired network interface; faster 802.11 protocols are just around the corner and it'd be a hassle to have a laptop that gave a lowly 11 mbps interface priority over a bitchin' 56 mbps interface (the mind boggles; why, I remember 300 baud and Pennywhistle modems and paper tape ...). I could be wrong, though. (-; -- richard Shane Hickey wrote: > Howdy all, > I just got a new one of these babies and I have 4.7-release installed > on it now. Things are going pretty smootly, except for the fact that > FreeBSD doesn't appear to see the built-in wireless card (Which I > believe is a Cisco Aironet card). I happened to have another Aironet > 350 laying around, and after I enabled the pccard daemon, it's working > great. But, I'd like to get the built-in one working, if it's > possible. Anyone done this? > > Thanks, > > Shane > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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