MSI Wind X340 setup ?

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> I am trying to do a rush job here, installing freeBSD 8.2-RELEASE onto
> a spare partition on am MSI Wind X340 laptop.
>
> So far, I got the OS installed OK, but I have no idea how to properly
> configure in order to get the built-in wireless to work.  Any help,
> hints, clues, or whatever would be appreciated, as long as they arrive
> today befor 4PM PDT (after which I will be offline).
>
> I guess the main problem is that I don't even know the device name.
> I did:
>
>     dmesg | fgrep -i wireless
>
> and got nothing, so I don't even know what device I need to be ifconfig'ing
> for.

# pciconf -lv

Or if it's USB like some internal devices,
# usbconfig

and then
# usbconfig -d 1.2 dump_device_desc
where 1.2 is the USB address.

Short form wireless setup here:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html