From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 3 18:05:13 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647D11065674 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 18:05:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B8FA8FC0A for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 18:05:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48FC7BDC34 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:49:17 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:49:17 -0700 Message-ID: <22251.1312393757@tristatelogic.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Subject: MSI Wind X340 setup ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:05:13 -0000 Greetings, I am trying to do a rush job here, installing freeBSD 8.2-RELEASE onto a spare partition on am MSI Wind X340 laptop. So far, I got the OS installed OK, but I have no idea how to properly configure in order to get the built-in wireless to work. Any help, hints, clues, or whatever would be appreciated, as long as they arrive today befor 4PM PDT (after which I will be offline). I guess the main problem is that I don't even know the device name. I did: dmesg | fgrep -i wireless and got nothing, so I don't even know what device I need to be ifconfig'ing for. Also, I've only set up a FreeBSD machine as a DHCP client onces before, and now I forgot how to do that. Reminders appreciated. Thanks.