Laptop Wireless
Damian Wiest
dwiest at vailsys.com
Sat Nov 11 02:13:07 UTC 2006
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:56:46PM -0500, doug at safeport.com wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote:
>
> >On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> >>Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old
> >>Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she
> >>upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine.
> >>However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011)
> >>notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate
> >>drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at
> >>the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at
> >>this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with
> >>respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the
> >>process understandable would be much appreciated.
> >>
> >>Rem
> >
> >Can you post the dmesg?
> >
> >Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably
> >use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings.
> >
> >-Damian
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN
>
> This indicates the ed driver works for this card.
I don't think so :) There are _no_ Belkin cards listed in the WLAN
section of that page.
In any case, isn't ed for ethernet nics?
-Damian
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