Thinkpad Wireless

[Glen Barber]

On 8/22/10 8:12 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
>  I just acquired an IBM Thinkpad R51 on which I have installed 8.1
> Release.  I have scoured the handbook and tried a number of different
> combinations in /etc/rc.conf and /boot/loader.conf to get the wireless
> working, but so far with no luck.  Can anyone give me a heads up on
> getting wireless operating on this laptop?
> 

Hi Rem,

First off, do you know what wireless chipset you have?  You can find out
using:

	pciconf -lv

though without knowing what manufacturer, I can't quite say what to look
for.  As far as the settings, have a look at this section of the handbook:

	http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

particularly where you configure wlan0 as the interface in rc.conf -
pre-8.0-RELEASE, the convention was to use:

	ifconfig_ath0="DHCP"

where iwn0 was an Atheros-based chipset.  The new way is to set the
following in rc.conf:

	wlans_ath0="wlan0"
	ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP"


Maybe you can put the output of the pciconf command I referenced earlier
on pastebin - I think that might help us get you in the right direction
faster.

Regards,

-- 
Glen Barber