On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The only stumbling block to ditching windows on my laptop is a network > card. I have a vanilla ath card that works fine under win32 and > fedora, as well as a lucent-branded wi card. Neither even appears in > dmesg when I put it in pccard0/cbb0. If I stick a compact flash card > in an adapter, however, it looks to work (haven't tried mounting it). > Anyway, how do I even start to debug this, since I have no output? I > notice one of the lights on the card flashes when I plug it in, but > that could just be part of it's power-up process... > > Eventually, I plan to hack my bios to get a "unsupported network card" > to run without locking up the bios boot process, but from what I've > read, that's alot of work... > > Thanks, > Steve > Have you checked the "Hardware Notes" for the version of FreeBSD that you're running? You can find links to the current versions' notes at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ That might give you some indication of whether the item is supported and whether there is a kernel module that you need to load. Best of luck, Andrew _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
