From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 6 14:56: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF2837B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:56:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-97.apple.com [17.250.248.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9788243FB1 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:56:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scotjohnson@mac.com) Received: from asmtp01.mac.com (asmtp01-qfe3 [10.13.10.65]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h16Mu2Xc029558 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:56:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([12.217.78.9]) by asmtp01.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H9WT1D00.G5J; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:56:01 -0800 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:56:00 -0600 Subject: Re: Newbie Wireless Networking Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To: Dan Pelleg From: Scot Johnson In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <29796191-3A26-11D7-947F-000393BE291C@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 05:55 AM, Dan Pelleg wrote: > Scot Johnson writes: > >> I recently converted my old HP Pavilion 6330 to FreeBSD 4.5. It has >> 48 MB >> RAM, 4GB hard drive, and 300 Mhz AMD K-6 processor. >> >> >> I also have a small wireless network in my home. An Apple Airport base >> station w/ iMac and iBook, both running Mac OS 10.2.3 Jaguar. >> >> >> I'd like to try and get the HP on the network. I got a Linksys PCI >> card >> (WMP11) and installed it. I checked the kernel config and it >> included wi, >> awi, an, etc. This lead me to believe that wireless networking was >> configured into the kernel. However, the system doesn't seem to >> recognize >> the PCI card. I'm unsure, however, whether the specific PCI card >> I'm using >> is supported, or I'm just doing something stupid (which is quite >> possible). I used ifconfig and sysinstall to attempt to configure >> the >> networking card. But like I said, it doesn't show up. If I could >> get the >> card to work, my plan would be to use DHCP to join the network. >> > > My first guess would be that pccardd isn't running. In any case, you'll > probably want to read through: > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/11/02/Big_Scary_Daemons.html > > -- > > Dan Pelleg > Dan- Thanks. Looks interesting. I'm going to try and follow the advice in the article. Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message