From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 17:03:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0976D16A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:03:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpauth06.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth06.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B16BB43D48 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:03:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=yoda.datawok.com) by smtpauth06.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.34) id 1D166o-0003W5-J4; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:03:34 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:04:08 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200502151740.57083.coder@worldwidewhat.dk> In-Reply-To: <200502151740.57083.coder@worldwidewhat.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200502151104.08494.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bcf25e562adc1789f96dd0ff55ef507b80350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 cc: Lars Hederidder Subject: Re: Wireless PCMIA problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:03:36 -0000 On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:40 am, Lars Hederidder wrote: > Hey, > > I have a 3Com 3CRSHPW_96 Wireless PCMIA card for my laptop. > However I'm a newbie at using PCMIA cards on FreeBSD. > > BSD finds the card when I plug it in, but it doesn't show up when > I use the ifconfig command. > > Can anyone help me with this problem, so I can get it up and running. > The system is a fresh installed FreeBSD 5.3 > > Thanks in advance > Lars When you say FreeBSD "sees" the card, do you mean it is associated with a device, or just that the card's name appears in dmesg? It would appear, from the email message link below, that this card requires the use of it's Windows drivers. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2004-September/004804.html Follow the link below to the online handbook's chapter on wireless networking. Read the whole chapter; but pay particular attention to section 25.3.3.6.3, toward the bottom, regarding the NDISulator. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould