Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:14:36 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew David Parker <matparke@cs.indiana.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Dell 1450 usb wireless card w/ FreeBSD 6.0 Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0512151501140.8903@whale.cs.indiana.edu>
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Hi, I'm trying to get a 1450 Dell wireless usb card working here in FreeBSD 6.0. I opened up the card casing and the chips inside say "conexant", and it's some sort of prism2. I couldn't find any drivers to use that were native to freeBSD so I tried to do the NDISulator. I did ndisgen on my inf and sys files and it seemed to work perfectly, generating a file named PRISMA02_sys.ko, which I put into /boot/kernel. So I plugged the card into the USB slot and here is the dmesg: ugen0: DELL Dell Wireless 1450 Dual-band (802.11a/b/g) USB 2.0 Adapter, rev 2.00/10.50, addr 2 Then I did: kldload ndis which loaded if_ndis as well: kldstat: 4 2 0xc0e0b000 c960 if_ndis.ko 5 3 0xc0e18000 173c4 ndis.ko Then I did: kldload PRISMA02_sys.ko It loads the module but doesn't say anything, no errors, nothing. kldstat has this new line: 7 1 0xc243f000 59000 PRISMA02_sys.ko The little lights on my wireless card don't turn on, and there is absoletely nothing new added to dmesg, nor is there any new device added when I do "ifconfig". Am I missing something here? Do I have to compile the module specifically for USB? Do I have to manually create a device in /dev ? Thanks, Matt
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