Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:47:29 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Thinkpad Wireless Message-ID: <4C71E141.4040604@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C71BCD8.7080403@comcast.net> References: <4C71BCD8.7080403@comcast.net>
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On 8/22/10 8:12 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: > I just acquired an IBM Thinkpad R51 on which I have installed 8.1 > Release. I have scoured the handbook and tried a number of different > combinations in /etc/rc.conf and /boot/loader.conf to get the wireless > working, but so far with no luck. Can anyone give me a heads up on > getting wireless operating on this laptop? > Hi Rem, First off, do you know what wireless chipset you have? You can find out using: pciconf -lv though without knowing what manufacturer, I can't quite say what to look for. As far as the settings, have a look at this section of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html particularly where you configure wlan0 as the interface in rc.conf - pre-8.0-RELEASE, the convention was to use: ifconfig_ath0="DHCP" where iwn0 was an Atheros-based chipset. The new way is to set the following in rc.conf: wlans_ath0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP" Maybe you can put the output of the pciconf command I referenced earlier on pastebin - I think that might help us get you in the right direction faster. Regards, -- Glen Barber
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