From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 9 06:38:20 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36071065673 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 06:38:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mail-ey0-f172.google.com (mail-ey0-f172.google.com [209.85.215.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169308FC0C for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 06:38:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eye4 with SMTP id 4so3406257eye.31 for ; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:38:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.111.6 with SMTP id q6mr537374ebp.41.1312870230442; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:10:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jessie.localnet (p5B2ED41A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.46.212.26]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p49sm2818361eef.24.2011.08.08.23.10.28 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Bernhard Schmidt From: Bernhard Schmidt To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 08:09:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-10-generic; KDE/4.6.2; i686; ; ) References: <4E403D95.9070209@understudy.net> In-Reply-To: X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201108090809.54852.bschmidt@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Understudy Subject: Re: Thinkpad t60p questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bschmidt@freebsd.org List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 06:38:21 -0000 On Monday, August 08, 2011 22:55:05 Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Understudy wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have just loaded FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE on to my thinkpad t60p. I have a > > couple of questions. > > This model is 8741-A11. Currently I am running GENERIC as the kernel. I > > would like to tweak a few things and gain an understanding of a few things. > > Maybe help a few others along the way. > > So lots of information coming. > > > > none1@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x10108086 chip=0x42278086 rev=0x02 > > hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' > > device = 'PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection' > > class = network > > "none1 means no driver claimed this device. Looking at the current > pci.ids file, I don't see > 8086 1010 under 8086 4227. I only see 8086 1011 and 8086 1014. Looks > like IBM/Lenovo puts a custom PCI ID on the card for the T60 that is > different from that on the R60 and X60. > > You should be able to just add the 1010 ID to the driver and it will > probably work. Hmm.. the driver should attach fine to any 0x4227 card, the subdevice IDs are just used to differ between models with and without 11a support. What does 'kldload -v if_wpi' show? > > So my first question has to do with the wireless. I have a 3945ABG Network > > Connection which uses the wpi driver. I have set that up in the > > boot/loader.conf. However it does not show up when I do ifconfig -a. Do I > > need to add ifconfig to rc.conf? Here is where this question gets tricky, I > > have a wireless network at home a wpa2 setup. However that will not be the > > main connection for the laptop. It normally will be plugged into an ethernet > > cable. Also the laptop will travel with me and be used in hotels and with > > airport wifi setup. So how do I tell it that if there is a cable ethernet to > > not connect the wireless and if there is a wireless that it should be able > > to connect to a open network ? > > You need to read the man pages for wpa_supplicant and > wpa_supplicant.conf. It looks complex, but it's really pretty simple > if you look at the examples in /usr/share/examples/etc/ That and lagg(4) will do it. > > Follow up items to include xorg, battery and fan items for the t60p. > > Will need further information to get into these. > > -- Bernhard