Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:46:25 -0500 From: "Andrew Gould" <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> To: stevefranks@ieee.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg? Message-ID: <d356c5630807241346t2037bdcbic671e5758349c987@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90807241005q6ba03cecia6a11c6f9ec6ca1a@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90807241005q6ba03cecia6a11c6f9ec6ca1a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> 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
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