wireless driver for dell latitude d505?

[Eric Schuele]

Brian Barto wrote:
> 
>> --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)
>> Adjunct Information Security Officer
>> The University of Texas at Dallas
>> AVIEN Founding Member
>> http://www.utdallas.edu
>>
> 
> Thanks Paul and the others who replied. I will definitely be using the 
> extra info you provided. But unfortunately the wi driver doesn't seem to 
> be working. "kldload if_wi"  returns the following output:
> 
> module_register: module pccard/wi already exists!
> Module pccard/wi failed to register: 17
> module_register: module pci/wi already exists!
> Module pci/wi failed to register: 17
> 
> I'm guessing that this means the the wi driver is already included in 
> the kernel build?
> 
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If you have access to the card you might try to identify the chipset. 
My Dell Truemobile 1300 was a broadcom.  I was using NDISulator (Project 
Evil) at the time.

-- 
Regards,
Eric