Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:47:39 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com> Cc: Andrey <andrey.kosachenko@gmail.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Yousif Hassan <yousif@alumni.jmu.edu>, besideinfo <besideinfo@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Wireless on hp 6710b Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1080409142907.10134A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <47FBFD8D.50501@clearchain.com>
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Benjamin Close wrote: > besideinfo wrote: > > --- Yousif Hassan <yousif@alumni.jmu.edu> wrote: > > > > > >> I don't really understand what you mean here. Do > >> you mean they do not show > >> up in kldstat at all, or that they do show up in > >> kldstat but are still > >> "missing" in terms of being attached? (Both > >> scenarios possible). [..] > > Sorry my previous post was incomplete. > > > > what I mean is that the five modules are declared in > > the loader.conf, but kldstat doesn't show them up. > > > > I tried to locate the five module using the locate > > command, but the only modules presents on my notebook > > are wlan_amrr.ko and wpifw.ko. > > The modules if_wpi, wlan_scan_sta and wlan_scan_ap do > > not exists. > > > > I forgot to say that this the first time I use freeBSD > > a mailing list and above my english is bad. So any > > advice are well accept. > > > > > Some modules will not load as they are built into the kernel by default. To besideinfo: In which case you should use kldstat -v to show all in-kernel modules. This can be a big list, so perhaps best search for 'missing' ones with: kldstat -v | egrep 'wpi|wlan' If they're there then there's no need to load them in /boot/loader.conf cheers, Ian > Are you able to post the results of: > > ifconfig -v wpi0 > > a: > > dmesg |grep wpi > > would help after you boot verbosely (an option when FreeBSD starts) > Cheers, > Benjamin
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