Wireless networking question

[S Roberts]

Hello Chip,

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:00:29 -0700
Chip Camden <sterling at camdensoftware.com> wrote:

> On Apr 24 2010 13:39, Chip Camden wrote:
> > A new notebook (ASUS K72F) has integrated wireles networking.  The
> > technical specifications are sadly lacking, so I don't know what
> > chipset.  The wired ethernet appears to use uath, but that's not
> > working as a wlandev. Since most everything else is Intel, I
> > figured it could be an Intel chipset, and since it supports
> > 802.11n, I think its probably in the 6000 series.  I tried all the
> > Intel drivers that are listed here:
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_wireless_drivers#FreeBSD
> > 
> > And none of them appeared to work.  Looking a little further down,
> > it seems that the Intel 6000 is supported by iwn on OpenBSD, but
> > not on FreeBSD.  But I could be barking up the entirely wrong tree.
> > 
> > Can anyone shed some light here?  Is there any way to query the
> > hardware, short of opening the box (which will void the warranty)?
> > 
> > TIA 
<<snipped>>
> 
> More info:  I found the following in the output of pciconf -vl:
> 
> 
> none3 at pci0:2:0:0:	class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b
> chip=0x002b168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'Atheros
> Communications Inc.' class      = network
> alc0 at pci0:3:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x18201043
> chip=0x10631969 rev=0xc0 hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'Attansic (Now owned
> by Atheros)' class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> 

Not a whole lot there..,

Does scanpci -v tell you any more details about the hardware?

Regards,

S Roberts

> 
> Looks like the first entry show here is my wireless (guessing),
> because alc0 is my wired.  Any ideas from that what driver I should
> be using? I've tried 'ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0', as well as
> ath1..9 and uath0..9, and I always get:
> 
> ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Device not configured
>