wireless LAN

[Mathias Samuelson]

Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
> I'm using SONY VAIO Z1 series, and it seems that the
> built in wireless LAN isn't working properly. So I got
> a PC Card which is WaveLAN (Lucent), a bit old one but
> expect to work fine under FreeBSD 5.2.1.
> 
> I've enabled 'pccard' at rc.conf file and the kernel
> seems to load the 'wi' driver by default.
> 
> But the WaveLAN isn't working yet. Could anyone drive
> me in a good (complete) reference to get things
> working?
> 
> Cheers,
> SH-

I sent this in reply to an earlier post, but failed to cc the list. It's 
not complete, but until you get better information perhaps it can help 
you out a bit:

I have MA401 and it's working without any problems now. I started out 
with pccardd starting with configuration file, rather than using the 
default one. That didn't work so well, so in /etc/rc.conf I now have:

pccard_enable="YES"
pccard_mem="DEFAULT"
pccard_beep="2"
pccard_ifconfig="NO"
pccardd_flags=""
pccard_ether_delay="5"

My understanding is that with this setup, pccardd will look for the file 
/etc/defaults/pccard.conf, then it might be the case (sorry for not 
being more knowledgable in this area) that it will read 
/etc/pccard.conf. Anyway, I have one and it looks like this:

# Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE
card "Lucent Technologies" "WaveLAN/IEEE"
         config  0x1 "wi0" 11
         insert  echo WaveLAN/IEEE inserted
         insert  /etc/pccard_ether wi0
         remove  echo WaveLAN/IEEE removed
         remove  /sbin/ifconfig wi0 delete

# Netgear MA401
card "NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC" "Card"
         config  auto "wi" ? 0x10000
         insert  /etc/pccard_ether $device start
         remove  /etc/pccard_ether $device stop

Now, when I insert the card, after a few seconds the card shows up in 
ifconfig.

I hope this helps out a bit. And oh, I'm on 4.10-STABLE

Best regards
Mathias