From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 27 15:07:36 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 5852816A406 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:07:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2482343D49 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:07:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP (SSL) id IBA74465; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:06:56 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 75D6945042; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:06:55 -0700 (PDT) To: Gregers Petersen In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:29:01 +0200." <445064AD.3040100@cbs.dk> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:06:55 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20060427150655.75D6945042@ptavv.es.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless woes (was: no subject) 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, 27 Apr 2006 15:07:36 -0000 > Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:29:01 +0200 > From: Gregers Petersen > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > Jeff Rollin wrote: > > Whoops! Sorry for the lack of a subject in the last post, folks. ;-) > > >> Can anyone help with this, please? > > After inserting the D-Link card you should probably run a quick 'ifconfig ath0' > to see if you have a new network-interface - the 'ath' driver is a generic part > of the generic kernel, so if you havn't done any changes to your local kernel > you should not need to 'kldload if_ath' (to load the appropriate kernel module). > > I have the same pc-card, but I did a bit off kernel-modding, so I manually load > the 'ath' module ... I'm running an IBM R51 with the build in Intel2200 ('iwi'), > but the Atheros chipset of the DWL-650 is more flexible and better supported for > certain things. I'm afraid that ath is NOT in Generic in 6.0 nor is it in 6.1-RC or 6-stable. It's not even in Current. (I'm not sure why this is the case.) You will need to add it to you kernel config or 'kldload if_ath'. If you always want it to load, add the line 'if_ath_load="YES"' to /boot/loader.conf. Whether this will fix the problem, I can't say, as I don't know if the DWL-650 you have uses an ath chip. Also, pccard_enable is obsolete in V6. It was used with OLDCARD in earlier version of FreeBSD, but the CardBus code does not use it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634