Wireless woes

Robert Blacquiere freebsd at guldan.demon.nl
Thu May 18 11:09:39 UTC 2006


Hi Jeff,

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:04:31AM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> Robert,
> 
> Yes, that's the internal one. The one I'm configuring is external,
> Cardbus-type. It's definitely atheros-based.

Then it looks like the pcmcia controller is not enabling the pcmcia
card. Try en set debugging on the cbb (cardbus). 

Maybe that gives more info about attaching or detecting a card in the
slots.

Robert

> 
> Jeff
> 
> On 18/05/06, Robert Blacquiere <freebsd at guldan.demon.nl> wrote:
> >
> >On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:18:10AM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I just had a thought on this subject. Could the problem I'm having be
> >due to
> >> not having the firmware/hal? I never thought to install anything since
> >it
> >> works in SuSE 10.0 out of the box. Is there a firmware/hal package/port
> >in
> >> ports?
> >>
> >> Jeff.
> >>
> ><snip>
> >
> >Hi jeff,
> >
> >You don't have a atheros based wireless device. It seems that you have a
> >broadcom wireless device:
> >
> >none4 at pci2:5:0: class=0x028000 card=0x000617f9 chip=0x431814e4 rev=0x02
> >hdr=0x00
> >    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> >    class    = network
> >
> >This is probably your wireless device.
> >
> >Robert
> >
> >--
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> >
> 
> 
> 
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