From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 20 16:06:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4821C16A400 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:06:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benitoite@comcast.net) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.152]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3903413C44B for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:06:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benitoite@comcast.net) Received: from xenon (unknown[67.170.166.37]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <20070420160617m1200cihtoe>; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:06:17 +0000 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:05:48 -0700 From: Rob To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20070420090548.2c825268.benitoite@comcast.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ath_hal shows up but nothing else in my dmesg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:06:20 -0000 Here is the only line in my dmesg related to anything wireless: ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) No ath0, wlan, etc. I am using a variant of the GENERIC kernel config file: # Wireless NIC cards device wlan # 802.11 support device wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support device wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support device wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support device an # Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs. device ath # Atheros pci/cardbus NIC's device ath_hal # Atheros HAL (Hardware Access Layer) device ath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath device awi # BayStack 660 and others device ral # Ralink Technology RT2500 wireless NICs. device wi # WaveLAN/Intersil/Symbol 802.11 wireless NICs. #device wl # Older non 802.11 Wavelan wireless NIC. I am wondering what is happening? This laptop is a newer Sony VIAO Thanks, Rob --------------------- www.empython.org Python for Electromagnetics