On 8/22/10 8:12 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
I just acquired an IBM Thinkpad R51 on which I have installed 8.1
Release. I have scoured the handbook and tried a number of different
combinations in /etc/rc.conf and /boot/loader.conf to get the wireless
working, but so far with no luck. Can anyone give me a heads up on
getting wireless operating on this laptop?
Hi Rem,
First off, do you know what wireless chipset you have? You can find out
using:
pciconf -lv
though without knowing what manufacturer, I can't quite say what to look
for. As far as the settings, have a look at this section of the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
particularly where you configure wlan0 as the interface in rc.conf -
pre-8.0-RELEASE, the convention was to use:
ifconfig_ath0="DHCP"
where iwn0 was an Atheros-based chipset. The new way is to set the
following in rc.conf:
wlans_ath0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP"
Maybe you can put the output of the pciconf command I referenced earlier
on pastebin - I think that might help us get you in the right direction
faster.
Regards,
Thanks for your help so far. Yes, I have looked at the handbook section
on wireless, and as a matter of fact I installed 8.1 on an ancient
Compaq Presario (6GB HD!) and was able to configure the Atheros wireless
pci card so that the computer works quite well. OK...the info I gleaned
from pciconf -lv shows:
device = 'driverIntel PRO/Wirelss 220BG (MPC13B'
Cheers...
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