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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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