Wireless networking question
Chip Camden
sterling at camdensoftware.com
Sat Apr 24 20:59:48 UTC 2010
On Apr 24 2010 13:39, Chip Camden wrote:
> A new notebook (ASUS K72F) has integrated wireles networking. The technical
> specifications are sadly lacking, so I don't know what chipset. The
> wired ethernet appears to use uath, but that's not working as a wlandev.
> Since most everything else is Intel, I figured it could be an Intel
> chipset, and since it supports 802.11n, I think its probably in the
> 6000 series. I tried all the Intel drivers that are listed here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_wireless_drivers#FreeBSD
>
> And none of them appeared to work. Looking a little further down, it
> seems that the Intel 6000 is supported by iwn on OpenBSD, but not on
> FreeBSD. But I could be barking up the entirely wrong tree.
>
> Can anyone shed some light here? Is there any way to query the hardware,
> short of opening the box (which will void the warranty)?
>
> TIA
>
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More info: I found the following in the output of pciconf -vl:
none3 at pci0:2:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
class = network
alc0 at pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x18201043 chip=0x10631969 rev=0xc0 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
Looks like the first entry show here is my wireless (guessing), because
alc0 is my wired. Any ideas from that what driver I should be using?
I've tried 'ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0', as well as ath1..9 and
uath0..9, and I always get:
ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Device not configured
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