Dell 5160 & Wireless Ethernet

[Philip M. Gollucci]

>hmm! are you sure it isn't just picking up a built-in firewire port, and not
>picking up the micro-pci card at all?  

To be honest, I have no clue...  
I do have another 1u Server in a coloc that uses the fxp driver for the builtin ethernet card.

Is there any way to find out ? I can post my entire dmesg if that helps ?




John wrote:

>On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:57:09 -0500, Philip M. Golllucci wrote
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've got a dell 5160 notebook with builtin wireless ethernet.
>>Windows XP home detects it as Dell Wireless WLAN 1350 Mini-PCI Card
>>
>>Freebsd5.2.1-RELEASE detects it as
>>
>>cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
>>pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
>>cbb0: [MPSAFE]
>>fwohci0: vendor=104c, dev=8029
>>fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem 
>>0xfaff4000-0xfaff7fff,0xfaffb800-0xfaffbfff irq 16 at device 4.1 on pci2
>>fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0)
>>fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channel is 4.
>>fwohci0: EUI64 37:4f:c0:00:3a:98:e4:c1
>>fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
>>fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
>>firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
>>fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
>>if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 36:4f:c0:98:e4:c1
>>sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
>>fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
>>fwohci0: BUS reset
>>fwohci0: node_id=0xc000ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
>>firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
>>firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
>>
>>unfortunately, I have 0 experience with firewire. 
>>I edited my  /etc/rc.conf file accordingly
>>ifconfig_fwe0="DHCP"
>>    
>>
>
>hmm! are you sure it isn't just picking up a built-in firewire port, and not
>picking up the micro-pci card at all?  
>
>I have an intel-based laptop (samsung v70) with a wireless micropci card built
>in which is detected as fxp0
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