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Date:      Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:56:00 -0600
From:      Scot Johnson <scotjohnson@mac.com>
To:        Dan Pelleg <daniel+bsd@pelleg.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newbie Wireless Networking
Message-ID:  <29796191-3A26-11D7-947F-000393BE291C@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <u2s7kcd39p4.fsf@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu>

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On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 05:55 AM, Dan Pelleg wrote:

> Scot Johnson <scotjohnson@mac.com> writes:
>
>> I recently converted my old HP Pavilion 6330 to FreeBSD 4.5. It has 
>> 48 MB
>> RAM, 4GB hard drive, and 300 Mhz AMD K-6 processor.
>>
>>
>> I also have a small wireless network in my home. An Apple Airport base
>> station w/ iMac and iBook, both running Mac OS 10.2.3 Jaguar.
>>
>>
>>   I'd like to try and get the HP on the network. I got a Linksys PCI 
>> card
>>   (WMP11) and installed it. I checked the kernel config and it 
>> included wi,
>>   awi, an, etc. This lead me to believe that wireless networking was
>>   configured into the kernel.  However, the system doesn't seem to 
>> recognize
>>   the PCI card. I'm unsure, however, whether the specific PCI card 
>> I'm using
>>   is supported, or I'm just doing something stupid (which is quite
>>   possible).  I used ifconfig and sysinstall to attempt to configure 
>> the
>>   networking card. But like I said, it doesn't show up. If I could 
>> get the
>>   card to work, my plan would be to use DHCP to join the network.
>>
>
> My first guess would be that pccardd isn't running. In any case, you'll
> probably want to read through:
>
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/11/02/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
>
> -- 
>
>   Dan Pelleg
>

Dan-

Thanks. Looks interesting. I'm going to try and follow the advice in 
the article.

Scot


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