Wireless networking question

Chip Camden sterling at camdensoftware.com
Sun Apr 25 23:40:46 UTC 2010


On Apr 25 2010 16:18, Chip Camden wrote:
> On Apr 25 2010 21:26, S Roberts wrote:
> > 
> > Hmmm.., you sure your ports system is installed / up-to-date there?
> > 
> > Do you have any of the docs that would have shipped with the notebook?
> > If not, I searched ASUS, and found a link to the English version manual
> > here:
> > http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&product=3&model=K72F&type=map&f_type=19
> > 
> > I've not downloaded it, so please see if there's anything that can
> > assist. There **are** other resources at the ASUS site - you just have
> > to use the menu on the right to select your particular model and review
> > the list of resources that gets returned..,
> > 
> > Hope this helps..,
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > S Roberts
> 
> Thanks for the attempt to help, but ports are up-to-date.  I'm on
> 8.0-RELEASE amd64 -- maybe scanpci isn't available on amd64?
> 
> The download for the manual is exactly the same as the paper manual that
> came with the notebook.  It gives very little technical information.  On
> the web site, all I could find is that it's 802.11n capable, which I
> already knew from the sales pamphlet.
> 

OK -- searching the ASUS site for Windows 7 64bit docs (that's what came
on it), I find three possibilities for the wireless device:

1. Intel 1000
2. Intel 6200
3. Azurewave

Looks like both of the first two are addressed by driver iwn on OpenBSD,
but not on FreeBSD.  The third one I don't see anywhere.  Looking here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_wireless_drivers#FreeBSD

Looks like that page was last updated for FreeBSD on April 25.
In any case, I tried iwn, and that doesn't work.

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