From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 20:46:26 2008 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 80E45106567A for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:46:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewlylegould@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4578FC1C for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:46:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewlylegould@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b33so1094862ana.13 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:46:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=Kae44dZT2gpmW7Kl9tsbIsLW6p32hc7kawCPZ2g6Tio=; b=UXAkRsqTUAewbOBoME1ut5dzpMi2gnFvdSJOS5xnWG5up5Rxd59TCHWLX3RGrXOCiJ 5Vnn+HTnwu1MYeA+dkP5/VnUrRy9HyLx5zEfVPg2lcRNALvMbsyeAZVjd0LUGB5oxcQ8 XQt4K8ijdF611ZidiEBzpreSJ2ja2P5j3PXmk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=Ndr2zifECETOlsMEZl3F7bgSJ+sf0LhRdyraGGVMwIM1osgiIHYVvX1APvNZsxYr9q Hioj0SRwqhRhX5aTgcwfDwStMF+HaEUKeYyk9c1ur70cOp9jVreIVl7vyNcvKQrLHCmI yQ0ZXkjyN3Kkxv4vPGYhmL7TK7psm4I8UNMtA= Received: by 10.100.142.4 with SMTP id p4mr1345853and.23.1216932385204; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:46:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.92.3 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:46:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:46:25 -0500 From: "Andrew Gould" To: stevefranks@ieee.org In-Reply-To: <539c60b90807241005q6ba03cecia6a11c6f9ec6ca1a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <539c60b90807241005q6ba03cecia6a11c6f9ec6ca1a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg? 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, 24 Jul 2008 20:46:26 -0000 On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Steve Franks wrote: > The only stumbling block to ditching windows on my laptop is a network > card. I have a vanilla ath card that works fine under win32 and > fedora, as well as a lucent-branded wi card. Neither even appears in > dmesg when I put it in pccard0/cbb0. If I stick a compact flash card > in an adapter, however, it looks to work (haven't tried mounting it). > Anyway, how do I even start to debug this, since I have no output? I > notice one of the lights on the card flashes when I plug it in, but > that could just be part of it's power-up process... > > Eventually, I plan to hack my bios to get a "unsupported network card" > to run without locking up the bios boot process, but from what I've > read, that's alot of work... > > Thanks, > Steve > Have you checked the "Hardware Notes" for the version of FreeBSD that you're running? You can find links to the current versions' notes at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ That might give you some indication of whether the item is supported and whether there is a kernel module that you need to load. Best of luck, Andrew