--On Monday, November 29, 2004 02:51:53 PM -0500 Brian Barto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, I have a dell latitude c505 laptop that has a build-in wirelessI'm pretty sure all the Dell built-ins are Orinoco cards. man wi(4) should be the right one. It lists the Dell Truemobile card.
nic, but when I loaded freebsd 5.3 it did not detect it. I'm guess i have
to load a driver via kldload but I have no idea what driver it could be.
Anyone know off hand? Dell's website isn't any help.
If your wireless network uses wep, you need to issue a command similar to this:
ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \ wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624
Or, in /etc/rc.conf, use something like this:
ifconfig_wi0="inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xfffff00 ssid my_net\ wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624"
If you're using dhcp for ip/mask assignment, then something like this:
ifconfig_wi0="inet ssid my_net wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624"
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
Thanks Paul and the others who replied. I will definitely be using the extra info you provided. But unfortunately the wi driver doesn't seem to be working. "kldload if_wi" returns the following output:
module_register: module pccard/wi already exists! Module pccard/wi failed to register: 17 module_register: module pci/wi already exists! Module pci/wi failed to register: 17
I'm guessing that this means the the wi driver is already included in the kernel build?
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