From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 21 17:51:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB7E716A400 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:51:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dasreine@list.ru) Received: from mxoa.su29.ru (mxoa.su29.ru [81.200.9.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79AA113C4AE for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:51:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dasreine@list.ru) Received: from [10.10.9.49] (helo=[192.168.1.72]) by mail.su29.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HfJ5M-000Nlc-GV; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:09:20 +0400 Message-ID: <462A453E.7040105@list.ru> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:09:18 +0400 From: das User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070403) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob References: <20070421070403.13699449.rob@empython.org> In-Reply-To: <20070421070403.13699449.rob@empython.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Original-SMTP-From: dasreine@list.ru X-Original-SMTP-To: rob@empython.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My wireless is borked, dmesg only shows ath_hal X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:51:01 -0000 Rob wrote: > Here is the only line in my dmesg related to anything wireless: > > ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, > RF5413) > > No ath0, wlan, etc. > > I am using a variant of the GENERIC kernel config file: > > > # Wireless NIC cards > device wlan # 802.11 support > device wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support > device wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support > device wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support > device an # Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs. > device ath # Atheros pci/cardbus NIC's > device ath_hal # Atheros HAL (Hardware Access Layer) > device ath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath > device awi # BayStack 660 and others > device ral # Ralink Technology RT2500 wireless NICs. > device wi # WaveLAN/Intersil/Symbol 802.11 wireless NICs. > #device wl # Older non 802.11 Wavelan wireless NIC. > > > I am wondering what is happening? This laptop is a newer Sony VIAO > > Thanks, > > Rob > > --------------------- > www.empython.org Python for Electromagnetics > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > I was very sad 5 Months ago when I could not get Freebsd to work with this Intel wireless card myself and installed Fedora linux instead. Does the NDIS (project evil) driver really work with this card, I had read somewhere that it did not (or that it did not work well) and so did not bother to try it. cheers D