From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 3 20:58:04 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 E0340106564A for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:58:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB2B8FC16 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:58:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p73KbKh2014809; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:37:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id p73KbKwf014806; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:37:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:37:20 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" In-Reply-To: <22251.1312393757@tristatelogic.com> Message-ID: References: <22251.1312393757@tristatelogic.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:37:20 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 20:58:05 -0000 On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > 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. # pciconf -lv Or if it's USB like some internal devices, # usbconfig and then # usbconfig -d 1.2 dump_device_desc where 1.2 is the USB address. Short form wireless setup here: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html