Thinkpad t60p questions

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On Monday, August 08, 2011 22:55:05 Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Understudy <list at understudy.net> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have just loaded FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE on to my thinkpad t60p. I have a
> > couple of questions.
> > This model is 8741-A11. Currently I am running GENERIC as the kernel. I
> > would like to tweak a few things and gain an understanding of a few things.
> > Maybe help a few others along the way.
> > So lots of information coming.
> >
> > none1 at pci0:3:0:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x10108086 chip=0x42278086 rev=0x02
> > hdr=0x00
> >    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
> >    device     = 'PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection'
> >    class      = network
> 
> "none1 means no driver claimed this device. Looking at the current
> pci.ids file, I don't see
> 8086 1010 under 8086 4227. I only see 8086 1011 and 8086 1014. Looks
> like IBM/Lenovo puts a custom PCI ID on the card for the T60 that is
> different from that on the R60 and X60.
> 
> You should be able to just add the 1010 ID to the driver and it will
> probably work.

Hmm.. the driver should attach fine to any 0x4227 card, the subdevice
IDs are just used to differ between models with and without 11a
support.

What does 'kldload -v if_wpi' show?

> > So my first question has to do with the wireless.  I have a 3945ABG Network
> > Connection which uses the wpi driver. I have set that up in the
> > boot/loader.conf. However it does not show up when I do ifconfig -a. Do I
> > need to add ifconfig to rc.conf?  Here is where this question gets tricky, I
> > have a wireless network at home a wpa2 setup. However that will not be the
> > main connection for the laptop. It normally will be plugged into an ethernet
> > cable. Also the laptop will travel with me and be used in hotels and with
> > airport wifi setup. So how do I tell it that if there is a cable ethernet to
> > not connect the wireless and if there is a wireless that it should be able
> > to connect to a open network ?
> 
> You need to read the man pages for wpa_supplicant and
> wpa_supplicant.conf. It looks complex, but it's really pretty simple
> if you look at the examples in /usr/share/examples/etc/

That and lagg(4) will do it.

> > Follow up items to include xorg, battery and fan items for the t60p.
> 
> Will need further information to get into these.
> 
> 

-- 
Bernhard