Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:02:20 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: Brian Barto <bartobri@comcast.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wireless driver for dell latitude d505? Message-ID: <298628DD311BB1996756A890@utd49554.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <1DE489A0-4240-11D9-9FF7-000A95886E00@comcast.net> References: <1DE489A0-4240-11D9-9FF7-000A95886E00@comcast.net>
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--On Monday, November 29, 2004 02:51:53 PM -0500 Brian Barto
<bartobri@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi all, I have a dell latitude c505 laptop that has a build-in wireless
> nic, but when I loaded freebsd 5.3 it did not detect it. I'm guess i have
> to load a driver via kldload but I have no idea what driver it could be.
> Anyone know off hand? Dell's website isn't any help.
>
I'm pretty sure all the Dell built-ins are Orinoco cards. man wi(4) should
be the right one. It lists the Dell Truemobile card.
If your wireless network uses wep, you need to issue a command similar to
this:
ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \
wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624
Or, in /etc/rc.conf, use something like this:
ifconfig_wi0="inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xfffff00 ssid my_net\
wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624"
If you're using dhcp for ip/mask assignment, then something like this:
ifconfig_wi0="inet ssid my_net wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624"
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
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