Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:31:53 -0600 From: Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card Message-ID: <4B5C2FA9.1050309@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> In-Reply-To: <20100124055128.f5e742d3.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4B5BC60A.5040101@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <20100124040551.GA12664@orion.hsd1.pa.comcast.net> <20100124040756.GA12755@orion.hsd1.pa.comcast.net> <4B5BCE14.3040107@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <20100124055128.f5e742d3.freebsd@edvax.de>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigC9F4BFA788CE319722F9FE83 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 1/23/2010 10:51 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:35:32 -0600, Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-= a-nagy-jr.us> wrote: >> I hope ifconfig will help more then dmesg as I have no way of getting >> files (like dmesg.log that I created) off the box (floppy drive isn't >> even hooked up, IIRC) and rl0 is my wired NIC, non-internal. >=20 > The ifconfig program (often used as "ifconfig -a") tells > you only about NICs that are already connected to a driver. > Most wireless NICs require loading a specific kernel module > (which is not in the GENERIC kernel), and therefore it's > helpful to know what exact model it is, so you can load the > correct driver. There are of course programs that help you > with this: "pciconf -lv" and "usbdevs -v" are common tools <snip> Thanks, this probably wouldn't be such an issue if I hadn't thrown away the box two-three weeks ago (at least, I think I threw it out; I've had the card for about a two years). none3@pci0:2:2:0: class 0x20000 card=3D0x1faa11ab chip=3D0x00351033 rev=3D= 0x43 hdr=3D0x00 vendor =3D 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology LLC)' device =3D 'Marvell Libertas 02.llb/g Wireless (8335)' class =3D network subclass =3D ethernet I can't find any wlan modules in /boot/kernel that aren't already loaded.= P.S.: I'm subscribed to the list, no need to CC me. --=20 PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. --------------enigC9F4BFA788CE319722F9FE83 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLXC+wAAoJEENZQ8DH7rW0KjEH/1xQj8XGJ8kLEWJqCSwHacjy NJ5wfDqUndkvGgtJ7PY+eGki+oLPMBkrRsArchg4TMz384FDBb4I6chTt12wj8DC QudM3sbGALNKO27FtgbMbOLqzDsawIQrtyym9ZKBatb1rEuNkZUa5NhfbyeR0UEw EOoSg6NweWzM5S09MMMw8aRwizmOHgi0aH9KiOFQ0PAmxtlsZ0d+LjkISq3l5EGd oWsrTJRWHx8b3cU20t+Nl1e4ijdacYoOlBMMdsinrE26v2Kru7Gd3uYqDykYrkSW 1aVir47NnTVjDTYZS67dntSw3TTQZv08BKzcmdJRDFvSu9oYFmSxtkkvWx0tRT0= =krO8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigC9F4BFA788CE319722F9FE83--
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