Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:22:21 -0500 From: Brian Barto <bartobri@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wireless driver for dell latitude d505? Message-ID: <AA3A74BA-4276-11D9-9FF7-000A95886E00@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <298628DD311BB1996756A890@utd49554.utdallas.edu> References: <1DE489A0-4240-11D9-9FF7-000A95886E00@comcast.net> <298628DD311BB1996756A890@utd49554.utdallas.edu>
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> --On Monday, November 29, 2004 02:51:53 PM -0500 Brian Barto > <bartobri@comcast.net> 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" > > Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > Adjunct Information Security Officer > The University of Texas at Dallas > AVIEN Founding Member > http://www.utdallas.edu > Thanks Paul and the others who replied. I will definitely be using the extra info you provided. But unfortunately the wi driver doesn't seem to be working. "kldload if_wi" returns the following output: module_register: module pccard/wi already exists! Module pccard/wi failed to register: 17 module_register: module pci/wi already exists! Module pci/wi failed to register: 17 I'm guessing that this means the the wi driver is already included in the kernel build?
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