Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:48:10 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig for WLAN using WEP Message-ID: <200412250148.iBP1mA5S011534@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote on Fri Dec 24 16:22:29 2004:
>--On Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:49 AM -0600 Scott Bennett
><bennett@cs.niu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> As it turns out, this was the right question to ask, for which I
>> thank Paul.
>>
>Glad I was able to help.
> >
>> I interpret the above as meaning that the "Broadband" interface is the
>> dial-up interface, the "Local Area" interface is the real Ethernet
>> interface (not connected physically), the 1394 interface is the infrared
>> port as Ethernet- over-FireWire (fwe0), and the Dell 1450 card is indeed
>> the wireless interface. Looking through the boot messages from
>> FreeBSD 5.2.1, I don't see anything that looks like the Dell wireless
>> card being detected. I've looked through all the man pages for the
>> various interface types and haven't seen anything that looks appropriate.
>> If anyone reading this can suggest what to do next, please do.
>>
>What happens when you type "% ifconfig wi0 up" and then type "% ifconfig"?
Just what one would expect:
ifconfig: interface wi0 does not exist
>Do you see the interface?
>
No, it isn't detected at boot time, apparently. That's why I'm trying
to find out of a driver is available for that card.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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