From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 16:22:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E637916A4CF for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:22:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (mailtest.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8A743D31 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:22:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F44F2547; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:22:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from s103.sbo (s103.sbo [192.168.0.103]) by mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id D777FF288D; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:01:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Freddie Cash To: rob@pythonemproject.com Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:01:09 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <415C59C7.7090408@pythonemproject.com> In-Reply-To: <415C59C7.7090408@pythonemproject.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410210901.09392.fcash@ocis.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at sd73.bc.ca cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wifi on 5.3, sort of OT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:22:20 -0000 On September 30, 2004 12:08 pm, Rob wrote: > I didn't see a wifi mailing list, so thought I would ask here, where > the real experts hang out ;) > I am tired of having to log into windoze in order to access my > network over wifi. I think this would be much easier if I wasn't > using a notebook. From reading the handbook it appears that the > process will take some doing, since I need wifi plus cardbus. > Problem seems to be right now that my Netgear WG511T cardbus card > doesn't seem to be reconginized. I have the same card at home. In order to get it to work with BETA7 I had to install a new Atheros HAL. This can be downloaded from the people.freebsd.org/internal/ website, although I forget the name of the person who did the patchset. You download the patchset, patch the source tree, and rebuild the Atheros modules. After that, everything worked just tickety-boo. You'll need to search the -current archives for the patchset, or I can send it to you later tonight. I've now got three Atheros-based wireless NICs working beautifully at home (D-LINK DWL-G650 rev. B2, NetGEAR WG511T, Toshiba-branded Atheros 5212) all connecting to a D-LINK DI-624. All running on FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7, and sometimes Windows 98SE and XP Pro SP2. > wi, cardbus, pcmcia, and the bridge are all compiled into my kernel. > Possibly a couple other related devices. You need ath and ath_hal in the kernel (or loaded as modules), not wi. -- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net