From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 22:01:23 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 CD3A416A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:01:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from amsfep12-int.chello.nl (amsfep12-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6042043D1D for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:01:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Danovitsch@vitsch.net) Received: from Vitsch.net ([212.187.78.35]) by amsfep12-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.01.03.04 201-2131-111-106-20040729) with ESMTP id <20041129220120.SXIK1265.amsfep12-int.chello.nl@Vitsch.net>; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:01:20 +0100 Received: from [192.168.2.131] (cp402377-c.venlo1.lb.home.nl [84.29.14.88]) by Vitsch.net (8.12.3p2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id iATM0beD000751; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:00:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Danovitsch@vitsch.net) From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" To: Paul Schmehl Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:01:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <1DE489A0-4240-11D9-9FF7-000A95886E00@comcast.net> <298628DD311BB1996756A890@utd49554.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <298628DD311BB1996756A890@utd49554.utdallas.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411292301.02729.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> cc: Brian Barto cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: wireless driver for dell latitude d505? 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: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:01:23 -0000 On Monday 29 November 2004 22:02, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Monday, November 29, 2004 02:51:53 PM -0500 Brian Barto > > wrote: > > Hi all, I have a dell latitude c505 laptop that has a build-in wireless > > nic, but when I loaded freebsd 5.3 it did not detect it. I'm guess i have > > to load a driver via kldload but I have no idea what driver it could be. > > Anyone know off hand? Dell's website isn't any help. > > I'm pretty sure all the Dell built-ins are Orinoco cards. man wi(4) should > be the right one. It lists the Dell Truemobile card. > > If your wireless network uses wep, you need to issue a command similar to > this: > > ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \ > wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624 > > Or, in /etc/rc.conf, use something like this: > > ifconfig_wi0="inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xfffff00 ssid my_net\ > wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624" > > If you're using dhcp for ip/mask assignment, then something like this: > > ifconfig_wi0="inet ssid my_net wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624" That will result in errors... You're trying to set the ip-address of the interface to "ssid". If you want to use DHCP and also want to set specific options to the interface (like the ssid / wep-key), you'll need to create a startup-script for the interface. In /etc/rc.conf you just say you want wi0 to get an address via DHCP : ifconfig_wi0="DHCP" And in a file named "/etc/start_if.wi0" : ifconfig wi0 ssid "the name of the network" wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 grtz, Daan