From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 03:14:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6545D1065696 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:14:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FC018FC18 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:14:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws7 with SMTP id 7so5648349vws.13 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:14:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=RV0t3sPw1VjYSf5Bhh9anm3p4qhggVmApT101Pl8034=; b=m0XXib5JO0qi0ens92xIq4ewpvwW4Mv8s1t7yC2fz2+pBK7ThwgtmYAJ1A4XUZ5QDm 2BeiqFWsXUQhliC9Sk0wFRgesyeV099oFqRFYxCWmvTBKfvM2vbITdL0F4PZoEKIIe6g iNzsyni4b1kpegrQS3CoNSeFU7E+ymZIAVCZs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=by9tfN0Wl3hCpnR5pD0j1IxuzEVPqr+PAVKG5rlMk3TGgi644txp3zZq5V4Yl9mmNK IsbZWHbSS9sS2ntH+bAt9WqN0mg3A94gznBZNIxcEKpBT0XP1yNn9vQiXthSTzdfVdXv K7TByxz+YTO2koSycofoQ2Pp+4eA+1w+qlygc= Received: by 10.220.98.140 with SMTP id q12mr2850569vcn.128.1282533292089; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (c-71-230-240-241.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [71.230.240.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w31sm3204299vbs.15.2010.08.22.20.14.50 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:14:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C71E7A9.7000209@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:14:49 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rem P Roberti References: <4C71BCD8.7080403@comcast.net> <4C71E141.4040604@gmail.com> <4C71E462.9020805@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4C71E462.9020805@comcast.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Thinkpad Wireless X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:14:53 -0000 On 8/22/10 11:00 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: > > Thanks for your help so far. Yes, I have looked at the handbook section > on wireless, and as a matter of fact I installed 8.1 on an ancient > Compaq Presario (6GB HD!) and was able to configure the Atheros wireless > pci card so that the computer works quite well. OK...the info I gleaned > from pciconf -lv shows: > > device = 'driverIntel PRO/Wirelss 220BG (MPC13B' > Perfect. Is "220BG" a typo? I see that iwi(4) supports 2200BG/2225BG and so on. If it _is_ a typo, try this: echo 'legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1' >> /boot/loader.conf echo 'if_iwi_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf echo 'iwi_bss_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf echo 'iwi_ibss_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf echo 'iwi_monitor_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf (Note, the differentiation between the single- and double-quotes.) After a reboot, you should see iwi0 in ifconfig(8) output. (I'm not aware of a way to acknowledge the license agreement without a reboot.) Then you should be able to configure your wlan0 device similarly to your Presario. Hope this helps. Regards, -- Glen Barber