Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:11:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: David Cramblett <david@axisintegrated.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WaveLan IEEE Wireless PC Card Setup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105151107080.90800-100000@java2.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <003001c0dd61$74ac77c0$ac0411ac@mesd.k12.or.us>
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On May 15, David Cramblett wrote: >I am trying to setup an Lucent Technologies/Orinoco WaveLAN Wireless IEEE 802.11b card. I saw in the kernel config file that there was support for this type of card and I had hoped that it would detect the card on install and I would only have to do some small amount configuration. I have since discovered that it is not that simple. I have found the "pccard.conf" and "rc.pccard" files. I added the startup options into my rc.conf and on boot up it attempts to start pccardd, but say's card is not configured. > >oh, and I am using a ISA PMCIA socket adapter card into which the WaveLAN card plugs into, not a Laptop. > >I would appreciate any insight or documentation anyone may have on setting up such a device. My guess would be that it is pccard support (lack thereof) in your kernel that is causing a problem. Take a look at http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/FreeBSD/163/0/3788553/+wi0:+No+irq%3F!%0A&hl=en for a description of setting up a desktop with the Orinoco cards. On my laptop I just added a insert /etc/setup_$device to the pccard.conf entry for the WaveLAN card and put all my wicontrol statements in that file. Rebooted and I was on the wireless lan. Easier than the Macs and W95 PCs I had setup earlier. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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