From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 22:59:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B8A910656A7 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:59:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cyberleo@cyberleo.net) Received: from paka.cyberleo.net (paka.cyberleo.net [66.219.31.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F3A88FC21 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:59:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.44.4] (den.cyberleo.net [66.253.36.39]) by paka.cyberleo.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2034229670; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 18:59:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4CAE50EB.3060305@cyberleo.net> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:59:55 -0500 From: CyberLeo Kitsana User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100911 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Moellering References: <4CADFA53.2060207@msen.com> In-Reply-To: <4CADFA53.2060207@msen.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Help with RealTek 8201 / rlphy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:59:57 -0000 On 10/07/2010 11:50 AM, Mark Moellering wrote: > I am installing FreeBSD 8.1 on an MSI wind notebook, which has a > RealTek 8201 wireless chip. The kernel acknowledges the chip as rlphy0 > on mii but I have no idea of how to actually configure it. > It shows up as miibus/rlphy in kldstat and as dev.rlphy.0 > It does not show up under ifconfig RTL8201 appears to be a phy for interfacing with 10/100baseT ethernet networks, and is generally paired (via miibus) with a media-independent adapter using one of rl(4) or re(4). This is not an 802.11 wifi device. You will probably have to look elsewhere in pciconf or usbconfig for evidence of your notebook's wireless adapter and its true chipset. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/