From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 25 01:56:33 2004 Return-Path: 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 8813016A4CE for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 01:56:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (mp.cs.niu.edu [131.156.68.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B50A43D49 for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 01:56:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bennett@cs.niu.edu) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (bennett@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mp.cs.niu.edu (8.13.2/8.13.2/d) with ESMTP id iBP1uS41011638 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:56:28 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:56:28 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Bennett Message-Id: <200412250156.iBP1uSVd011637@mp.cs.niu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 01:56:33 -0000 Paul Schmehl wrote Fri Dec 24 16:25:40 2004: >--On Friday, December 24, 2004 1:54 PM -0600 Scott Bennett > wrote: > >> I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 >> Dual- Band card for laptops. If anyone can point me in the right >> direction, please let me know. > >It's probably the wi driver, which should be in the default build of >"modern" FreeBSD. I don't think so, or at least it isn't obvious that that would be the right one. > >Look at man wi(4) and man wicontrol(8). I did. The only Dell card listed is the Dell TrueMobile 1150, which I think is a fairly old card that Dell no longer sells. Dell's recent catalogues list only the Intel PRO Wireless 2100 and 2200, the Dell Wireless 1350 and 1450, and the Dell TrueMobile 300 Bluetooth. The Dell Wireless 1450, which is the card I'm trying to get to work, is made by Broadcom, and I think Broadcom makes the chips on it as well. The wi driver is for a different manufacturer's chip set, so my guess is that the wi driver is not applicable to the Dell Wireless 1450. > >What do you see when you type "% wicontrol -i wi0 -o"? > wicontrol: SIOCGWAVELAN: Device not configured Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************