From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 02:47:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC561065696 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:47:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07F578FC12 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:47:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vw0-f54.google.com with SMTP id 7so5633740vws.13 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:47:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=w4DBHXXBqE+iswvskhe4lgCsGVZS1tvlb3WtmCFduEs=; b=Jmv0efcsJc0usj5P6idDN1Fd/sNuyH+Lgmk/GkLeqYYfZoapA54LCNyj/tW1pAaekQ J3kmEYCMc1N+z7rPkFwltAFwiYhgTeBjGLYJo+SnAPyOVy8wWEpo3cBu/dGyVh8K6zTk Ix+Xq10+A8sDB1nDoAsn94RWd5Pdf3wG2506g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=KL4CEaCIGRbKPLv+b77DqY1kfkHDk8YPpeGObLJTwMvRqKuH9FO7sWiiQUdyzMSFKy /YkojBm9n0bXdT7D7fkR2xhIVEBuugOZmXnHAfTUtafYUSo2ciRxhMmHDOBCmaZJ+9+w red5xK6pN83AjxDQen7mpguZxIoAGYRkITFRk= Received: by 10.220.62.72 with SMTP id w8mr2669361vch.200.1282531652729; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:47:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (c-71-230-240-241.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [71.230.240.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v11sm3194121vbb.3.2010.08.22.19.47.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:47:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C71E141.4040604@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:47:29 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rem P Roberti References: <4C71BCD8.7080403@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4C71BCD8.7080403@comcast.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Thinkpad Wireless 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: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:47:33 -0000 On 8/22/10 8:12 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: > I just acquired an IBM Thinkpad R51 on which I have installed 8.1 > Release. I have scoured the handbook and tried a number of different > combinations in /etc/rc.conf and /boot/loader.conf to get the wireless > working, but so far with no luck. Can anyone give me a heads up on > getting wireless operating on this laptop? > Hi Rem, First off, do you know what wireless chipset you have? You can find out using: pciconf -lv though without knowing what manufacturer, I can't quite say what to look for. As far as the settings, have a look at this section of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html particularly where you configure wlan0 as the interface in rc.conf - pre-8.0-RELEASE, the convention was to use: ifconfig_ath0="DHCP" where iwn0 was an Atheros-based chipset. The new way is to set the following in rc.conf: wlans_ath0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP" Maybe you can put the output of the pciconf command I referenced earlier on pastebin - I think that might help us get you in the right direction faster. Regards, -- Glen Barber