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Date:      Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:51:09 -0600
From:      Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com>
To:        Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Laptop Wireless
Message-ID:  <20061111005109.GE25030@dfwdamian.vail>
In-Reply-To: <454E09CF.70909@comcast.net>
References:  <454E09CF.70909@comcast.net>

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On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> Would someone point me in the right direction here.  I have an old 
> Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she 
> upgraded.  I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine.  
> However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) 
> notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate 
> drivers for the card to work.  I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at 
> the Handbook section dealing with wireless.  It's a little daunting at 
> this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with 
> respect to this laptop and wireless card.  Any help in making the 
> process understandable would be much appreciated.
> 
> Rem

Can you post the dmesg?

Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably 
use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings.

-Damian



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