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From: Brian Barto <bartobri@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:22:21 -0500
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Subject: Re: wireless driver for dell latitude d505?
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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?