Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:01:09 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net> To: rob@pythonemproject.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wifi on 5.3, sort of OT Message-ID: <200410210901.09392.fcash@ocis.net> In-Reply-To: <415C59C7.7090408@pythonemproject.com> References: <415C59C7.7090408@pythonemproject.com>
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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
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