Re: Newbie Wireless Networking

2003-02-06 Thread Scot Johnson 

On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 05:55 AM, Dan Pelleg wrote:


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.


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



Dan-

Thanks. Looks interesting. I'm going to try and follow the advice in 
the article.

Scot


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Newbie Wireless Networking

2003-02-05 Thread Scot Johnson 
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.

Thanks,
Scot


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