From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 18 10:04:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB6516A403 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 10:04:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeff.rollin@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42C8143D46 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 10:04:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.rollin@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so443202nzn for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 03:04:31 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=ZgDw85YmTeyE6bBKbMNAAlYZbXVVPf1h3RpdOO5lueS1gayKxPWpuzf0tPYGtzSSuWwMFY6jF4MrD7isLgybk2nuuDpjTyQb0wxjExbf+Fs7ZNLOz5FAl5YnYyNWbsshlnFReejwHhFTiu4p3Stad0TcHkystbdcNCPn3jrpr7k= Received: by 10.65.220.17 with SMTP id x17mr181125qbq; Thu, 18 May 2006 03:04:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.107.14 with HTTP; Thu, 18 May 2006 03:04:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8a0028260605180304u15e49fd2v2bdd88fa666f19a5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:04:31 +0100 From: "Jeff Rollin" To: "Robert Blacquiere" In-Reply-To: <20060518063735.GN7154@bombur.guldan.demon.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <8a0028260605090912re6b7f7bkb181bba64a0d9f5c@mail.gmail.com> <20060509164329.208F245042@ptavv.es.net> <8a0028260605100727n67acdd35qfd1f25b15caee43f@mail.gmail.com> <8a0028260605161045g6043edfaqe8bb03f6a1e44901@mail.gmail.com> <8a0028260605171818o726cd827nd1f9a60ff0384a62@mail.gmail.com> <20060518063735.GN7154@bombur.guldan.demon.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 10:04:33 -0000 Robert, Yes, that's the internal one. The one I'm configuring is external, Cardbus-type. It's definitely atheros-based. Jeff On 18/05/06, Robert Blacquiere wrote: > > On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:18:10AM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote: > > Hi > > > > I just had a thought on this subject. Could the problem I'm having be > due to > > not having the firmware/hal? I never thought to install anything since > it > > works in SuSE 10.0 out of the box. Is there a firmware/hal package/port > in > > ports? > > > > Jeff. > > > > > Hi jeff, > > You don't have a atheros based wireless device. It seems that you have a > broadcom wireless device: > > none4@pci2:5:0: class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x000617f9 chip=3D0x431814e4 rev= =3D0x02 > hdr=3D0x00 > vendor =3D 'Broadcom Corporation' > class =3D network > > This is probably your wireless device. > > Robert > > -- > Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? > Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? > FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? > OpenBSD: Hey guys you left some holes out there! > --=20 ------------------------------------------------------ Argument against Linux number 6,033: "...So this is like most Linux viruses. You have to download the virus yourself, become root, install it and then run it. Seems like a lot of work just to experience what you can get on Windows with a lot less trouble."