Laptop Wireless

[doug at safeport.com]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:
>> Would someone point me in the right direction here.  I have an old
>> Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she
>> upgraded.  I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine.
>> However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011)
>> notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate
>> drivers for the card to work.  I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at
>> the Handbook section dealing with wireless.  It's a little daunting at
>> this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with
>> respect to this laptop and wireless card.  Any help in making the
>> process understandable would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Rem
>
> Can you post the dmesg?
>
> Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably
> use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings.
>
> -Damian

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN

This indicates the ed driver works for this card.