wireless and/or routing question

Waitman Gobble gobble.wa at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 16:34:05 UTC 2012


On Jan 13, 2012 7:38 AM, "Warren Block" <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble
>> with the wireless setup.
>>
>> I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG that came with it, and an
>> Atheros 5424/2424 that i swapped out. I can run the BCM with ndis and the
>> windows xp driver, and the Atheros with the ath driver that is installed
>> with FreeBSD. (But BCM/ndis is noticeably much slower, Atheros - no green
>> "wireless" light appears on netbook )
>
>
> On other models of the Aspire One (AOA150 and D250), adding some
ath-specific settings to /boot/loader.conf enables the LED:
>
> dev.ath.0.ledpin=3
> dev.ath.0.softled=1

cool thanks ill try it out.

Waitman


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