Wireless woes (was: no subject)

Jeff Rollin jeff.rollin at gmail.com
Thu Apr 27 05:50:14 UTC 2006


Whoops! Sorry for the lack of a subject in the last post, folks. ;-)

On 27/04/06, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I have been having trouble trying to get a Cardbus wireless NIC working in
> FreeBSD. The card is a D-Link DWL-650, which has been tested and found to
> work in XP and SUSE on the same laptop, and XP on another. The laptop in
> question is a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A 1650. It is my understanding that
> FreeBSD 6.0 supports PCMCIA/Cardbus out of the box, yet installing the
> card in a running FreeBSD 6 system on said laptop doesn't even cause any of
> the status lights to flicker. Nor are any messages printed to the console
> regarding the insertion or removal of the card (Yes, I enabled pccard_enable
> in rc.conf ;-) )
>
> Can anyone help with this, please?
>


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