Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:57:29 -0500 From: "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <tfcheng@gmail.com> To: "Jonathan Horne" <freebsd@dfwlp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i finally got wireless working Message-ID: <f84c38580612170757j609bca19madb32879838a65c7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200612170924.04791.freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <200612170002.11022.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <200612170107.05883.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <20061217205339.019bc0f6.nick@nickwithers.com> <200612170924.04791.freebsd@dfwlp.com>
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hi... I would like to ask a wireless problem but has little to do with the article here... i want to setup my desktop to use wireless, but there doesn't seem to have a lot of wireless PCI card supported available, and the supported ones are quite expensive... I wonder if there is a more updated hardware list about the supported PCI card?? thank you!! TFC On 12/17/06, Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> wrote: > > On Sunday 17 December 2006 03:53, Nick Withers wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:07:05 -0600 > > > > Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> wrote: > > (snip) > > > > > one big mistake i made, was building world up to 6.2-RC1. there > > > was one good article about installing freebsd on an ibm t42 (found > > > it on google), but it didnt have any info on getting wireless to > > > auto start. after i had wireless manually up and running > > > initially, i then built world, and updated. next boot, firmware > > > and modules would not load. i had tweaked some other things, so i > > > backed those changes off, and worked round and round until i > > > decided to just do a quick reinstall. this time, i didnt use > > > 6.1-RELEASE, but i did 6.2-RC1. same behavior, and this is when i > > > figured out that the only time it really worked like the web page > > > depicted, was when i was on 6.1-RELEASE. so i tried cvsuping to > > > -p11, and things still worked fine. this is the only laptop i have > > > (thus, my only wireless computer), so when 6.2 comes out, ill be > > > pretty nervous about upgrading until i read that everything i > > > kosher with iwi- support. > > > > It works fine. > > > > Please see the UPDATING entry from the 2006-07-11, i.e.: > > ____ > > > > 20060711: > > The iwi(4) was updated to use the firmware(9) framework. In > order > > for it to work you need a port change from net/iwi-firmware to > > net/iwi-firmware-kmod. > > ____ > > ah, thanks nick, i didnt remember to check that. i wonder how safe it > would > be to switch the port out before i make the change to 6.2? maybe ill play > with that later today. > > also, is there a gui app to help manage wireless networks? > > cheers, > jonathan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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