Wireless woes

[Jeff Rollin]

On 09/05/06, Gregers Petersen <gp.ioa at cbs.dk> wrote:
>
>
> I was the one with the C3 version D-Link card -->


Oh, I see.

What if you try to run through the whole process again, just to check (+
> this is
> what I do + please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong in any way):


OK.

1. Press the card into the correct 'socket'.
> 2. (as 'su' run) kldload if_ath
> 3. (as 'su' run) ifconfig ath0 up


Have to stop here. Kernel complains that "interface ath0 does not exist"

The PC-card should "show up" after you have loaded the kernel module and
> made
> the PC-card "active" with 'up', but if nothing happens then you might have
> either hardware problems or 'strangeness'.


Strangeness it must be then. The card has been verified to work on more than
one laptop, in more than one operating system (including SuSE Linux 10). It
wouldn't work when I tried it with FreeBSD the last time I wrote to the
list, and has been working with SuSE before and since.

As I remember it your using an IBM R51 --> I have the same laptop with the
> build-in Intel 2200BG card and it works just fine for daily office use
> combined
> with the iwi-driver (from ports)


I'm afraid you're thinking of someone else. I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo
1650A (I suppose this could be built around the same hardware as the R51,
though). The laptop has an internal wireless card, but although it gets
detected (forget which driver, but it's a Broadcom NIC), neither Linux or
FreeBSD will turn it on, as it works with a software-enabled switch for
Guess Which OS?

so if you have the same build-in card I would
> like to ask if your already have this one working (and just need the
> PC-card for
> other stuff, just as I do) ?


Nope, the PC Card NIC was bought so that I could use a supported NIC in
Linux/BSD.

Thanks, though, Gregers,

Jeff

P.S. I'm going to try it in FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE once that's downloaded and
burned. Perhaps .0-RELEASE has a relevant bug that's been fixed.