Laptop Wireless

Mon Nov 13 19:52:38 UTC 2006

The OP replied off-list with his output from dmesg.  I'm sending it back to the
list in the off-chance that someone knows more about this wireless adapter.

-Damian

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>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
>
>  

Thanks for the reply, Damian.  Here is the dmesg:

Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
       The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #2: Fri Nov  3 08:22:20 PST 2006
   rem@:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/REMKERNEL
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (432.98-MHz 586-class CPU)
 Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x58c  Stepping = 12
 Features=0x8021bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,PGE,MMX>
 AMD Features=0x80000800<SYSCALL,3DNow>
real memory  = 201261056 (191 MB)
avail memory = 187408384 (178 MB)
kbd1 at kbdmux0
K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers)
ACPI disabled by blacklist.  Contact your BIOS vendor.
cpu0 on motherboard
pcib0: <AcerLabs M1541 (Aladdin-V) PCI host bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard
pir0: <PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 7 Entries> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Ali M1541 host to AGP bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff at device 
0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
pcm0: <ESS Solo-1 (unknown vendor)> port 
0x1080-0x10bf,0x1070-0x107f,0x1060-0x106f,0x10c4
-0x10c7,0x10c0-0x10c3 irq 5 at device 9.0 on pci0
cbb0: <TI1211 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 10.0 on pci0
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
pci0: <simple comms> at device 15.0 (no driver attached)
atapci0: <AcerLabs M5229 UDMA33 controller> port 
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfc
90-0xfc9f at device 16.0 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
pci0: <bridge> at device 17.0 (no driver attached)
ohci0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> mem 
0xfc000000-0xfc000fff irq 5 at dev
ice 20.0 on pci0
ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcb7ff,0xdc000-0xdffff on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 
on isa0
fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
speaker0: <PC speaker> at port 0x61 on isa0
unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (memory)
unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (memory)
psmcpnp0: irq resource info is missing; assuming irq 12
unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0400> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port)
ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 840C, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1
ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 432983113 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
cardbus0: CIS pointer is 0!
cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=2000
cardbus0: <network> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
ad0: 6194MB <FUJITSU MHH2064AT B815> at ata0-master UDMA33
acd0: DVDROM <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2202/1W23> at ata1-master UDMA33
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a

As you can see, it does not recognize the card.  Indeed, when I looked 
at the list of wireless cards in the hardware list the Belkin wireless 
card was nowhere to be found.  It may be that there is no driver for 
this particular card, and that I may just have to get another card.  
What do you think?

Rem

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