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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2001 11:11:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        David Cramblett <david@axisintegrated.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WaveLan IEEE Wireless PC Card Setup
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105151107080.90800-100000@java2.dpcsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <003001c0dd61$74ac77c0$ac0411ac@mesd.k12.or.us>

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On May 15, David Cramblett wrote:
>I am trying to setup an Lucent Technologies/Orinoco WaveLAN Wireless IEEE 802.11b card.  I saw in the kernel config file that there was support for this type of card and I had hoped that it would detect the card on install and I would only have to do some small amount configuration.  I have since discovered that it is not that simple.  I have found the "pccard.conf" and "rc.pccard" files.  I added the startup options into my rc.conf and on boot up it attempts to start pccardd, but say's card is not configured. 
>
>oh, and I am using a ISA PMCIA socket adapter card into which the WaveLAN card plugs into, not a Laptop.   
>
>I would appreciate any insight or documentation anyone may have on setting up such a device.

My guess would be that it is pccard support (lack thereof) in your kernel that
is causing a problem.  Take a look at

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/FreeBSD/163/0/3788553/+wi0:+No+irq%3F!%0A&hl=en

for a description of setting up a desktop with the Orinoco cards.

On my laptop I just added a

    insert  /etc/setup_$device

to the pccard.conf entry for the WaveLAN card and put all my
wicontrol statements in that file.  Rebooted and I was on the
wireless lan.  Easier than the Macs and W95 PCs I had setup earlier.

Dan
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