Wireless woes

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 17:12:36 +0100
> From: "Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin at gmail.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> Gregers,
> 
> >
> > OK
> > Is it possible to use the PC-card slot at all --> eg. is the hardware of
> > the
> > 'slot' supported by FreeBSD + you might have to edit the .conf file of th=
> e
> > PC-card slot to make it work properly (default.conf - it's somewhere in
> > ../examples - works normally with the most, but sometimes you need to add
> > stuff)
> 
> 
> Hopefully you meant /etc/defaults/pccard.conf, as I just spent some quality
> time vgrepping through that. It seems from that file that all of the DLink
> 650s listed use the if_wi driver; however "ifconfig wi0 up" gives the same
> error (interface does not exist or similar) as before. I think i remember
> something about an "iwconfig" command - is that now obsolete?

To refresh my addled, post vacation brain:

What version of FreeBSD?
NEWCARD or OLDCARD kernel?
dmesg.boot file?
kldstat output?
kernel configuration file?
pciconf -vl output?
Is any card seen when plugged into the card slot?

This is just a shot in the dark, but is device wlan in the kernel?
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634