Scot Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently converted my old HP Pavilion 6330 to FreeBSD 4.5. It has 48 MB > RAM, 4GB hard drive, and 300 Mhz AMD K-6 processor. > > > I also have a small wireless network in my home. An Apple Airport base > station w/ iMac and iBook, both running Mac OS 10.2.3 Jaguar. > > > I'd like to try and get the HP on the network. I got a Linksys PCI card > (WMP11) and installed it. I checked the kernel config and it included wi, > awi, an, etc. This lead me to believe that wireless networking was > configured into the kernel. However, the system doesn't seem to recognize > the PCI card. I'm unsure, however, whether the specific PCI card I'm using > is supported, or I'm just doing something stupid (which is quite > possible). I used ifconfig and sysinstall to attempt to configure the > networking card. But like I said, it doesn't show up. If I could get the > card to work, my plan would be to use DHCP to join the network. > > > I'm basically a novice. I've been working my way through _FreeBSD Unleashed_ > to try and figure this out, but I seem to be stuck. Any pointers would be > greatly appreciated. If I could get this thing up on the network it would > make my day. > >
My first guess would be that pccardd isn't running. In any case, you'll probably want to read through: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/11/02/Big_Scary_Daemons.html -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
