Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:00:50 -0700 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Thinkpad Wireless Message-ID: <4C71E462.9020805@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4C71E141.4040604@gmail.com> References: <4C71BCD8.7080403@comcast.net> <4C71E141.4040604@gmail.com>
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> On 8/22/10 8:12 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: >> I just acquired an IBM Thinkpad R51 on which I have installed 8.1 >> Release. I have scoured the handbook and tried a number of different >> combinations in /etc/rc.conf and /boot/loader.conf to get the wireless >> working, but so far with no luck. Can anyone give me a heads up on >> getting wireless operating on this laptop? >> > Hi Rem, > > First off, do you know what wireless chipset you have? You can find out > using: > > pciconf -lv > > though without knowing what manufacturer, I can't quite say what to look > for. As far as the settings, have a look at this section of the handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html > > particularly where you configure wlan0 as the interface in rc.conf - > pre-8.0-RELEASE, the convention was to use: > > ifconfig_ath0="DHCP" > > where iwn0 was an Atheros-based chipset. The new way is to set the > following in rc.conf: > > wlans_ath0="wlan0" > ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP" > > > Maybe you can put the output of the pciconf command I referenced earlier > on pastebin - I think that might help us get you in the right direction > faster. > > Regards, > Thanks for your help so far. Yes, I have looked at the handbook section on wireless, and as a matter of fact I installed 8.1 on an ancient Compaq Presario (6GB HD!) and was able to configure the Atheros wireless pci card so that the computer works quite well. OK...the info I gleaned from pciconf -lv shows: device = 'driverIntel PRO/Wirelss 220BG (MPC13B' Cheers...
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