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From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To: Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>
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Cc: Andrey <andrey.kosachenko@gmail.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org,
	Yousif Hassan <yousif@alumni.jmu.edu>, besideinfo <besideinfo@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Wireless on hp 6710b
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Benjamin Close wrote:
 > besideinfo wrote:
 > > --- Yousif Hassan <yousif@alumni.jmu.edu> wrote:
 > >
 > >   
 > >> I don't really understand what you mean here.  Do
 > >> you mean they do not show 
 > >> up in kldstat at all, or that they do show up in
 > >> kldstat but are still 
 > >> "missing" in terms of being attached?  (Both
 > >> scenarios possible).

[..]

 > > Sorry my previous post was incomplete.
 > >
 > > what I mean is that the five modules are declared in
 > > the loader.conf, but kldstat doesn't show them up. 
 > >
 > > I tried to locate the five module using the locate
 > > command, but the only modules presents on my notebook
 > > are wlan_amrr.ko and wpifw.ko. 
 > > The modules if_wpi, wlan_scan_sta and wlan_scan_ap do
 > > not exists. 
 > >
 > > I forgot to say that this the first time I use freeBSD
 > > a mailing list and above my english is bad. So any
 > > advice are well accept.
 > >
 > >   
 > Some modules will not load as they are built into the kernel by default.

To besideinfo:

In which case you should use kldstat -v to show all in-kernel modules.
This can be a big list, so perhaps best search for 'missing' ones with:

 kldstat -v | egrep 'wpi|wlan'

If they're there then there's no need to load them in /boot/loader.conf

cheers, Ian

 > Are you able to post the results of:
 > 
 > ifconfig -v wpi0
 > 
 > a:
 > 
 > dmesg |grep wpi
 > 
 > would help after you boot verbosely (an option when FreeBSD starts)
 > Cheers,
 >     Benjamin