Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:13:40 -0700 From: "SMITH,DAVE (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <dave_smith4@hp.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "SMITH,DAVE (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <dave_smith4@hp.com> Subject: WaveLAN IEEE driver Message-ID: <6BD67FFB937FD411A04F00D0B74FE8787EB5C7@xrose06.rose.hp.com>
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Hello, I have an X86 PC running 4.2 Release and I want to enable the Lucent/Agere Orinoco WaveLAN IEEE 802.11 card. I have the card plugged into a ISA to PCMCIA adapter card (I have tried a PCI to PCMCIA adapter too) and I am unable to get FreeBSD to recognize the card. I have built my own kernel just to make sure that the if_wi.c file is compiled and linked in. I have been unsuccessful at all attempts to get FreeBSD to recognize the PCMCIA card. There is no information that indicates that the card is present and it never gets powered on. I am a little new with FreeBSD and don't know yet all of the config files that might need to be modified in order to make this work. So far, I have not been successful at finding any usefull information about how device drivers are written and installed into the FreeBSD operating system and/or how to troubleshoot when it does not get called. It appears to me that the PCMCIA card is not recognized and powered on and therefor the wi_probe function is never called. But I cannot be sure about what is happening. Can someone help point me in the right direction? Is this the right email discussion for this topic? Thanks very much for any help, Dave Smith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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