Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:56:46 -0500 (EST) From: doug@safeport.com To: Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com> Cc: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Laptop Wireless Message-ID: <20061110205532.E79214@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20061111005109.GE25030@dfwdamian.vail> References: <454E09CF.70909@comcast.net> <20061111005109.GE25030@dfwdamian.vail>
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: > 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 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN This indicates the ed driver works for this card.
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