Help getting Compaq Wireless LAN card working

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:51:14 -0500
> From: stan <stanb at panix.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> I am trying to get my Compaq wireless LAN card for my N410C working.
> 
> I've looked at:
> 
> http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7121/sam0205a/sam0205a.htm
> 
> Given that information, I've added the apropriate itmes to my kernle (It's
> a device awi Prisim chipset, right?).

I think you want the wi driver. You can load it with 'kldload
if_wi'. awi is a special driver for the developers to use to try to
resolve some issues with a specific chip-set and is only for use if
the normal wi driver won't work. I don't think it support Prism chips.

> Now when I boot the machine I get the following in dmesg:
> 
> ugen0: Compaq Computers Compaq WLAN MultiPort W200, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2

ugen is a generic USB device. Is this a USB connected wireless?

> and if config looks like this:
> 
> fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 205.159.77.8 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 205.159.77.255
> 		ether 00:d0:59:c6:41:bf media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
> 		status: active lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> 		mtu 1500 
> faith0: flags=8003<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
> 	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST>
> 	mtu 1500 
> sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
> 
> So it's the faith0 device, right?

No. faith0 is the IPv4 to IPv6 pseudo device. You have no wireless
device. It should configure as wi0 if it's a PCCard. I'm not too sure
about what it will look like if it's USB.

> But when I run:
> 
> brown2# wicontrol -f 7
> wicontrol: SIOCSWAVELAN: Device not configured
> 
> So, what steps have I left out? Or am I confused?

Just a bit confused.

If this does not fix things, please include a full dmesg output and
full kernel config or pointer to where they can be found.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634