Brian Barto wrote:
--On Monday, November 29, 2004 02:51:53 PM -0500 Brian Barto
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Hi all, I have a dell latitude c505 laptop that has a build-in wireless
nic, but when I loaded freebsd 5.3 it did not detect it. I'm guess i
have
to load a driver via kldload but I have no idea what driver it could be.
Anyone know off hand? Dell's website isn't any help.
I'm pretty sure all the Dell built-ins are Orinoco cards. man wi(4)
should be the right one. It lists the Dell Truemobile card.
If your wireless network uses wep, you need to issue a command similar
to this:
ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \
wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624
Or, in /etc/rc.conf, use something like this:
ifconfig_wi0="inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xfffff00 ssid my_net\
wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624"
If you're using dhcp for ip/mask assignment, then something like this:
ifconfig_wi0="inet ssid my_net wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624"
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
Thanks Paul and the others who replied. I will definitely be using the
extra info you provided. But unfortunately the wi driver doesn't seem to
be working. "kldload if_wi" returns the following output:
module_register: module pccard/wi already exists!
Module pccard/wi failed to register: 17
module_register: module pci/wi already exists!
Module pci/wi failed to register: 17
I'm guessing that this means the the wi driver is already included in
the kernel build?
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If you have access to the card you might try to identify the chipset.
My Dell Truemobile 1300 was a broadcom. I was using NDISulator (Project
Evil) at the time.
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Regards,
Eric
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