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Date:      Sat, 30 Jun 2001 09:55:38 -0400
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        Mario Doria <madd@tecdigital.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Installing a Lucent Wavelan Wireless card
Message-ID:  <20010630095538.A804@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010629190744.A1044-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>; from marcus@marcuscom.com on Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:10:43PM -0400
References:  <001501c10067$1e601790$0a00a8c0@midgar> <20010629190744.A1044-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Friday, 29 June 2001 at 19:10:43 -0400, Joe Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Mario Doria wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> How do I install and use a Lucent Wireless card under FBSD 4.3-STABLE, I
>> plugged it in, compiled the driver into the kernel but nothing else
>> happened. What am I missing?
>
> You should be able to install the card, compile the wi or wl driver into
> the kernel,

That's what he did.

> and reboot.  Can you send the output of a dmesg after booting with
> the -v flag?

You don't need to compile the driver into the kernel; just kldload it.
You do need to enable pccard, however, and run pccardd.  If that
happens, you can still run into problems with unknown cards.  For
example, I recently got an IBM wireless card, which is in fact a
repackaged Lucent card, but the ID strings in the CIS are different.
Make sure your pccardd is running and check /var/log/messages for any
messages when you insert and remove the card.

Greg
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