From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 18 20:34:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08F91065670 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:34:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outbackdingo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f204.google.com (mail-yw0-f204.google.com [209.85.211.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CCD98FC17 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:34:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh42 with SMTP id 42so1360348ywh.7 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:34:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=gvWRefqAdzp1/8WCrPMia5+fg76gJkoskpV9XzAERyg=; b=MyLVg/wvqS+/cSS56QRBa3J/b6NGwhskwOp0e5rxPOSok1H1PuCNRnhrhKI+kZ9A7W k2C782XKwH5D/pNhqnIxLAvgcKACoHIwjyKo9MoT9CzO3p44uaBfk9fi0t3pFpLkIAMH 8n4WiIgpp6gZShT6Q7CYoFMitJHIMExF4c7bc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=PunJENxIgrTQYbRewuDmBZGeOCDmCMW2EHbu0jhHQDBI1gP8ym6AqgROgXfpdfQnua 8LQ6VZpIwJXuFhX6r7Vfxz+dK8b5wZHSAwNE3241VeFforCeHjGWDMHRT1xAjZHakrLE RjEIxEt1QYX+BPXuFYXixyiSCUAceqlAKsdKo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.138.20 with SMTP id q20mr10220242ann.160.1266525245458; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:34:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <622960.83313.qm@web56504.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <622960.83313.qm@web56504.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:34:05 -0500 Message-ID: <5635aa0d1002181234h43d4e0e9h80e82dcce6af4c8e@mail.gmail.com> From: Outback Dingo To: Neil Short Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP DV4-2153 laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:34:06 -0000 Possible being an N chip its the newer ath9k which i had a similiar problem under linux, but finally after getting the ath9k module loaded i could see a card was there, then a simple ifconfig wlan0 up and iwconfig wlan0 power auto under linux got it live..... so id suspect something comparable to FreeBSD would work, provided theres a drive which i believe there is might also work for you On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Neil Short wrote: > problem: 7.2-Release doesn't detect either network device. > > Just picked up a HP DV4-2153 laptop from Costco. I don't know how new it > is; but it may be fairly new. In the store I was able to determine the > wireless device to be Atheros. I don't know what the wired device is. I > never booted WinD'OH!s on the machine. I just loaded it up with FreeBSD > 7.2-R. > > Anyway: > 1) Has anybody had success with this particular laptop? > 2) Are there any tricks for determining the network devices? I tried > kldload-ing every network device and had no luck. > > ====== > > "What did you do?" the man holding the flashlight asked. > > "I put down a spider," he said, wondering why the man didn't see; in the > beam of yellow light the spider bloated up larger than life. "So it could > get away." > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >