From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 12:14:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E035A37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:14:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DFD943E8A for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:14:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (e69bf77f6e035546d2500adc73fbd424@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g8HJEdho068973; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:14:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8HJEdUH068972; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:14:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:14:39 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: MET Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless Networking Message-ID: <20020917191439.GF208@vectors.cx> References: <000d01c25e7b$1221d270$6401a8c0@SURVIVAL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000d01c25e7b$1221d270$6401a8c0@SURVIVAL> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG just yesterday i bought a d-link wireless AP/router and a Dell 802.11b pccard NIC, which is apparently just a rebranded Lucent WaveLAN. i'm still fiddling with it to make it work correctly, but i can tell you this: a) make sure that device card device pcic0 at isa? irq 0 port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 is in your kernel. it is in the base install. either put: device wi in your kernel config file, or if_wi_load="YES" in your /boot/loader.conf make sure pccardd is started from /etc/rc.conf b) READ THE wicontrol(1) MANPAGE c) seriously, read it. it's all you need to know. d) put the commands you need into /etc/start_if.wi0. stuff like setting the IBSS stuff, the key, turning encryption on, etc. also, see: http://darkminds.net/wlan/freebsd/swsetup.php -Adam >> (09.17.2002 @ 1149 PST): MET said, in 0.3K: << > I'm getting my hands on a 802.11a wireless network card and a base > station (both from Dell) and was wondering if it will work on my FreeBSD > laptop (dell Latitude C840). > > Any ideas or links to check out? > > > ~ Matthew > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> end of "Wireless Networking" from MET << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message