wireless driver for dell latitude d505?

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Monday, November 29, 2004 02:51:53 PM -0500 Brian Barto 
<bartobri at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi all, I have a dell latitude c505 laptop that has a build-in wireless
> nic, but when I loaded freebsd 5.3 it did not detect it. I'm guess i have
> to load a driver via kldload but I have no idea what driver it could be.
> Anyone know off hand? Dell's website isn't any help.
>
I'm pretty sure all the Dell built-ins are Orinoco cards.  man wi(4) should 
be the right one.  It lists the Dell Truemobile card.

If your wireless network uses wep, you need to issue a command similar to 
this:

ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \
                   wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624

Or, in /etc/rc.conf, use something like this:

ifconfig_wi0="inet 192.168.0.20  netmask 0xfffff00 ssid my_net\
                    wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624"

If you're using dhcp for ip/mask assignment, then something like this:

ifconfig_wi0="inet ssid my_net wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624"

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
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