Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:34:57 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: wifi ath Message-ID: <20060416153457.GA28758@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <44424E31.2000504@fastmail.fm> References: <20060416132552.GA28076@lothlorien.nagual.st> <44424E31.2000504@fastmail.fm>
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On 16 Apr Patrick Bowen wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > >Bought a WiFi D-Link with atheros chipset. > >Any pitfalls? > >What options exactly do I need to have my ath based wifi card up and > >running? > > > Test the card with "kldload if_ath" as root, then ifconfig and dhcp, > before you re-compile the kernel. If that works then you can just add > the modules at startup. Saves time recompiling. True. Thanks for your suggestion. On the other hand I will recompile non the less, because I will upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1. So I will look at the messages from kldload to see what's needed in the kernel ;-) ?? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 +++ The Power to Serve
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