Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:28:48 -0500 From: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" <mraught@acm.org> To: cscotts@mindspring.com Cc: FreeBSD Mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Linksys WMP11 Message-ID: <3DEC16E0.6030809@acm.org>
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>I bought a Dlink 520+ wireless PCI card not realizing that the "+" changed >chipsets, so today I replaced it with a linksys WMP11 PCI card which I've >read is supported in FreeBSD. The WMP11 card isn't detected either. The WMP11 is definitely supported. I use it with the WPC11 (PCCard) everyday. >it shows up in dmesg as >pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=3D0x14e4, dev=3D0x4301) at 10.0 irq 12 >(I believe..any way to make sure that is the right card?) this is what I get: (from /var/log/messages) Nov 5 21:56:30 music /kernel: wi0: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xfe9ff000-0xfe9fffff irq 9 at device 17.0 on pci0 Nov 5 21:56:30 music /kernel: wi0: 802.11 address: 00:06:25:a7:4b:97 Nov 5 21:56:30 music /kernel: wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) Nov 5 21:56:30 music /kernel: wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.05, Station 1.03.04 Here's my network area of the kernel. # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code. # NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs! device miibus # MII bus support # ISA Ethernet NICs. # 'device ed' requires 'device miibus' device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 irq 10 iomem 0xd8000 # Wireless adapter device wi0 >Any ideas? I've tried compiling wi into the kernel, and also leaving it >out and loading a module, no difference. I added that vendor and dev id to the >vendor list in one of the wi files to see if maybe that would work but it >wouldn't attach. >If this one won't work either, can someone just tell me what's a definitely >supported card that's readily available?? >Scott >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message Then I have the following in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/wireless.sh: #!/bin/sh # Run via the sh shell wicontrol -f 3 # Sets the wireless card's frequency. Legally, the range is from 1 # (2.412 GHz) to 11 (2.462 GHz) in the US, 1 to 13 (2.472 GHz) in # Europe, 10 (2.457 GHz) to 13 in France, and 1 to 14 (2.484 GHz) # in Japan. Choose another frequency if desired. # intersil firmware BSS mode wicontrol -p 0 # Adhoc mode # wicontrol -p 1 # BSS mode, meaning clients must associate with an access point, # and cannot directly connect to one another. wicontrol -c 1 # IBSS mode, an extention of BSS mode. wicontrol -s "music" # Sets the station name. Does not have to match host's DNS name. # wicontrol -k "12345" # The WEP key. Change to something a bit less obvious. wicontrol -e 0 # wicontrol -e 1 # Enables WEP security. ifconfig wi0 ssid "test" # Sets the name of the wireless network. ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 # Sets the IP address and netmask of the wireless device. Change # the device name if necessary. to setup the card. I didn't need to do anything else. It "Just worked" hope this helps, -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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