Setting up Wireless net Card

Warren Liddell shinjii at maydias.com
Tue Aug 5 20:38:21 UTC 2008


> Run "ifconfig"; if your card's driver is built into the GENERIC kernel
> (it likely is), then iconfig should list it.  Alternatively, you can
> run pciconf -lv.  If you can't find your card in either of these,
> please copy the output of those two to the list.
>
> (Hint: a goodway to save the output of a command to a file is:
> "command | tee file").
The below would be the wireless card, being belkin, but i dont believe that it 
is listed as part of the drivers with a generic kernel which im running.

none2 at pci3:5:0: class=0x020000 card=0x700f1799 chip=0x700f1799 rev=0x20 
hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Belkin Research and Development Labs'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

------------

re0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
        inet 192.168.1.65 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        ether <edited>
        media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex>
        status: active
fwe0: flags=108802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        ether <edited>
        ch 1 dma -1
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000


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