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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:57:09 -0500, Philip M. Golllucci wrote
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a dell 5160 notebook with builtin wireless ethernet.
> Windows XP home detects it as Dell Wireless WLAN 1350 Mini-PCI Card
> 
> Freebsd5.2.1-RELEASE detects it as
> 
> cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
> pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
> cbb0: [MPSAFE]
> fwohci0: vendor=104c, dev=8029
> fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem 
> 0xfaff4000-0xfaff7fff,0xfaffb800-0xfaffbfff irq 16 at device 4.1 on pci2
> fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0)
> fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channel is 4.
> fwohci0: EUI64 37:4f:c0:00:3a:98:e4:c1
> fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
> fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
> firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
> fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
> if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 36:4f:c0:98:e4:c1
> sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
> fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
> fwohci0: BUS reset
> fwohci0: node_id=0xc000ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
> firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
> firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
> 
> unfortunately, I have 0 experience with firewire. 
> I edited my  /etc/rc.conf file accordingly
> ifconfig_fwe0="DHCP"

hmm! are you sure it isn't just picking up a built-in firewire port, and not
picking up the micro-pci card at all?  

I have an intel-based laptop (samsung v70) with a wireless micropci card built
in which is detected as fxp0
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