Dell Laptop
Hi all Classic question about compatibility with new laptop... Anyone have succefuly (or not) install FreeBSD 7.x on the new Dell Precision M6400 or the Precision M6300 ? I don't find any information on google. neither on http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ Lots of thanks. Regards. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Heure local/Local time: Jeu 9 oct 2008 21:56:48 CEST ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell Laptop M6400
Le 09/10/2008 à 22:04:24+0200, Albert Shih a écrit Hi all Classic question about compatibility with new laptop... Anyone have succefuly (or not) install FreeBSD 7.x on the new Dell Precision M6400 or the Precision M6300 ? I don't find any information on google. neither on http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ Lots of thanks. I forget to say I don't really care if the webcam, the mic, the sound etc.. working or not. All I'm worry about is if I can install FreeBSD, and use it. I think the video card is not a problem (because I can use Nvidia drivers I hope), but what about the raid chipset ? the network card ? Regards. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Heure local/Local time: Jeu 9 oct 2008 22:18:39 CEST ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dell laptop + sound
Good day all, I am having problems getting sound to work on an old Dell Latitude. I configured the sound card following the handbook, and the driver (snd_ich) loads just fine. However I can neither hear anything when doing cat file /dev/dsp nor can I raise the volume level using the XFCE volume control applet. Any hints? Thanks in advance, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell laptop + sound
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:59:43 -0500 (EST) Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having problems getting sound to work on an old Dell Latitude. I configured the sound card following the handbook, and the driver (snd_ich) loads just fine. However I can neither hear anything when doing cat file /dev/dsp nor can I raise the volume level using the XFCE volume control applet. Any hints? Hi Michael, what card have you got? for example, I can see mine with pciconf -lv : [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:27:0: class=0x040300 card=0x05b71014 chip=0x26688086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel High DefiNition Audio Controller' class= multimedia [...] (look for 'class = multimedia' or pcm@ device... Also, after loading the snd modules, what does cat /dev/sndstat show? if the drivers has detected your card properly, you should get some info... For example , I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed Feb 21 11:02:46 2007] /usr/home/betom $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit) Installed devices: pcm0: Intel 82801F High Definition Audio Controller at memory 0xb000 irq 11 kld snd_hda [20070105_0038] (1p/1r/2v channels duplex default) _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome ...using the internet as it was originally intended... for the further research of pornography and pipebombs. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell laptop + sound - Solved
Thanks Norberto I figured it out, it was a maestro3 driver. Michael --- Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:59:43 -0500 (EST) Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having problems getting sound to work on an old Dell Latitude. I configured the sound card following the handbook, and the driver (snd_ich) loads just fine. However I can neither hear anything when doing cat file /dev/dsp nor can I raise the volume level using the XFCE volume control applet. Any hints? Hi Michael, what card have you got? for example, I can see mine with pciconf -lv : [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:27:0: class=0x040300 card=0x05b71014 chip=0x26688086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel High DefiNition Audio Controller' class= multimedia [...] (look for 'class = multimedia' or pcm@ device... Also, after loading the snd modules, what does cat /dev/sndstat show? if the drivers has detected your card properly, you should get some info... For example , I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed Feb 21 11:02:46 2007] /usr/home/betom $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit) Installed devices: pcm0: Intel 82801F High Definition Audio Controller at memory 0xb000 irq 11 kld snd_hda [20070105_0038] (1p/1r/2v channels duplex default) _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome ...using the internet as it was originally intended... for the further research of pornography and pipebombs. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
Hello, Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop? There's no /dev/sda at the moment. I can't seem to find out how the card connects internally - neither usb nor scsi look very likely... Any more ideas? Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:40AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop? Is there anything in /var/log/messages? If not, try 'pciconf -lv', 'usbdevs' and 'camcontrol devlist -v' to see if it is on the PCI, USB or SCSI bus respectively. If you can't get it to work, the SanDisk SDDR-93 sd card reader is supposed to work with Linux, so using it with FreeBSD should be possible. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpKtYQjfyM1B.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Monday 05 September 2005 11:04, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:40AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop? Is there anything in /var/log/messages? Not so far as I can see, nor in dmesg If not, try 'pciconf -lv', $ pciconf -lv snip/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:2: class=0x080501 card=0x01881028 chip=0x08221180 rev=0x17 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Ricoh Co Ltd' device = 'SD Bus Host Adapter' class= base peripheral Is that it? 'usbdevs just four empty sockets there and 'camcontrol devlist -v' Nothing there apart from the optical drive. to see if it is on the PCI, USB or SCSI bus respectively. So, PCI then? How do I go about my kernel config to get it detected? If you can't get it to work, the SanDisk SDDR-93 sd card reader is supposed to work with Linux, so using it with FreeBSD should be possible. I can get to the camera with its cable, though it's a bit slow - I just wanted the convenience of using the built-in reader, since it's there! Thanks a lot for your advice ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:24:33AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: On Monday 05 September 2005 11:04, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:40AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop? Is there anything in /var/log/messages? Not so far as I can see, nor in dmesg If not, try 'pciconf -lv', $ pciconf -lv snip/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:2: class=0x080501 card=0x01881028 chip=0x08221180 rev=0x17 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Ricoh Co Ltd' device = 'SD Bus Host Adapter' class= base peripheral Is that it? I think so. According to the following page, http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/insp6000/p-proc.html#sd it is a Ricoh R5c576A chip. Looking at the Ricoh page for this chip, http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/product_pcif/pcc/5c576a/ there seems to be no programming info available. AFAICT, there is no Linux driver either, but someone seems to be working on it: http://list.drzeus.cx/pipermail/wbsd-devel/2005-March/000261.html You could try contacting this person to see how far his efforts have come, and who the FreeBSD kernel developer is who is working on this. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpFyelBWo4D3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Monday 05 September 2005 11:50, Roland Smith wrote: $ pciconf -lv snip/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:2: class=0x080501 card=0x01881028 chip=0x08221180 rev=0x17 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Ricoh Co Ltd' device = 'SD Bus Host Adapter' class= base peripheral Is that it? I think so. According to the following page, http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/insp6000/p-proc.html#sd it is a Ricoh R5c576A chip. Looking at the Ricoh page for this chip, http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/product_pcif/pcc/5c576a/ there seems to be no programming info available. AFAICT, there is no Linux driver either, but someone seems to be working on it: http://list.drzeus.cx/pipermail/wbsd-devel/2005-March/000261.html You could try contacting this person to see how far his efforts have come, and who the FreeBSD kernel developer is who is working on this. Thanks a lot for your advice - I shall follow it, even if it is slightly dispiriting. Perhaps I should learn C properly and start writing some drivers... :-) Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
...PS - Thanks not just for your advice, but for putting in the effort to find this stuff out - I wouldn't have known where to start! Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:26:22PM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: Is that it? I think so. According to the following page, http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/insp6000/p-proc.html#sd it is a Ricoh R5c576A chip. Looking at the Ricoh page for this chip, http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/product_pcif/pcc/5c576a/ there seems to be no programming info available. AFAICT, there is no Linux driver either, but someone seems to be working on it: http://list.drzeus.cx/pipermail/wbsd-devel/2005-March/000261.html You could try contacting this person to see how far his efforts have come, and who the FreeBSD kernel developer is who is working on this. Thanks a lot for your advice - I shall follow it, even if it is slightly dispiriting. Perhaps I should learn C properly and start writing some drivers... :-) Not that I want to discourage you, but that seems like a tall order. Apart from knowing C, you'd have to get familiar with the FreeBSD kernel and writing device drivers. I guess a driver for an SD card reader should be similar to the USB umass(4) driver. It should also handle disks by using the CAM transport layer and da(4) devices. If you are serious about writing a driver, I would recommend reading The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System by McKusick and Neville-Neil. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgp16A3fSGmbP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Monday 05 September 2005 17:03, Roland Smith wrote: Thanks a lot for your advice - I shall follow it, even if it is slightly dispiriting. Perhaps I should learn C properly and start writing some drivers... :-) Not that I want to discourage you, but that seems like a tall order. Apart from knowing C, you'd have to get familiar with the FreeBSD kernel and writing device drivers. I'm not entirely serious - that is, it's certainly the Right Thing To Do, but I know my limitations as a programmer! Perhaps I'll start with something simpler. If you are serious about writing a driver, I would recommend reading The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System by McKusick and Neville-Neil. Good advice, once again! Thanks very much. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...
Hello, I'm having difficulty getting my Atheros 5212 based card to work in either of my dell laptops. The card only has its power LED on for about half a second when it is identified by the os (5.3BETA7), then it goes off. dhclient causes the link LED to blink in a very consistent manner but it never aquires any info from DHCP server. 'wicontrol -i ath0 -l' shows the correct wireless nets in the immediate area. 'ifconfig' shows correct info. My entire dmesg is appended to the bottom of this message. The card behaves the same on both my dell 5100 and my dell 1100. Thought maybe it was a bad card so I returned it and picked up another (same make and model)... but it behaves exactly the same. Its a Blitzz BWP 712 Super G (Atheros 5212)... wal-mart special. It behaves as described wether its inserted before I boot... or after it boots and I'm logged in. I have device ath device ath_hal device wlan I have a dhclient.conf with something to the effect of: media ssid wLAN_SSID channel 1 weptxkey 1 wepmode on wepkey 0x35CE7F608436C02D11583BDB7F3; Other (maybe unimportant) things: ACPI is on... APM is off. #option SMP AGP is on DRM is on Tried disabling PC Card support and just leaving Cardbus support... no go. I suspect I have something misconfigured with respect to the pcmcia slot... but that's just a guess. Any/All help is appreciated. -- Regards, Eric dmesg follows: == Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 #8: Tue Oct 19 08:29:06 CDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INSPIRON5100 Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz (2657.82-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebf9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE real memory = 536645632 (511 MB) avail memory = 515461120 (491 MB) npx0: [FAST] npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: DELL CPi R on motherboard Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 acpi_tz0: Thermal Zone on acpi0 acpi_acad0: AC Adapter on acpi0 acpi_cmbat0: Control Method Battery on acpi0 acpi_lid0: Control Method Lid Switch on acpi0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 acpi_button1: Sleep Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 ACPI link \\_SB_.PCI0.LNKB has invalid initial irq 11, ignoring pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82845G host to AGP bridge mem 0xe000-0xe7ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 drm0: ATI Radeon LW Mobility 7500 M7 port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xfcff-0xfcff,0xe800-0xefff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 info: [drm] AGP at 0xe000 128MB info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.11.0 20020828 on minor 0 uhci0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A port 0xbf80-0xbf9f irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B port 0xbf40-0xbf5f irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C port 0xbf20-0xbf3f irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: serial bus, USB at device 29.7 (no driver attached) pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 bfe0: Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaff irq 5 at device 1.0 on pci2 miibus0: MII bus on bfe0 bmtphy0: BCM4401 10/100baseTX PHY on miibus0 bmtphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto bfe0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:56:b4:f1:50 bfe0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ndis0: Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card mem 0xfaffc000-0xfaffdfff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0 ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:90:4b:69:39:7c ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps cbb0: TI4510 PCI-CardBus Bridge at device 4.0 on pci2 cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0 pccard0: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb0 fwohci0: 1394 Open Host Controller Interface mem 0xfaff4000-0xfaff7fff,0xfaffb800-0xfaffbfff irq 11 at device 4.1 on
Re: Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:58 am, Eric Schuele wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:22 am, Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, I'm having difficulty getting my Atheros 5212 based card to work in either of my dell laptops. The card only has its power LED on for about half a second when it is identified by the os (5.3BETA7), then it goes off. dhclient causes the link LED to blink in a very consistent manner but it never aquires any info from DHCP server. I should also note that it will not associate with any WAP even when I force all settings (IP address, wepkey, etc..)... Thanks, When I moved to FreeBSD 5*, I found that I had to remove certain wireless configuration options that worked in FreeBSD 4*. That was with a wi device; but the later configuration works well with my new atheros devices. I'm using the following atheros products successfully: D-Link DWL-G520 (pci in a generic desktop running FreeBSD 5.3RC1) D-Link DWL-G650 (pccard in a Dell Inspiron 8100 running FreeBSD 5.2.1) FYI: D-Link is displaying the Atheros logo on the retail boxes of its atheros chipset products; which should make purchasing these easier. I use the script below, with a real wep code and different IP addresses, for each of these devices. Other than setting hostname info in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/hosts, I haven't edited any other network configuration files. (Beware the effects of email wordwrap.) #!/bin/sh # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ath0 NIC=ath0 case $1 in start) ifconfig ${NIC} inet 192.168.42.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid datawok wepmode on wepkey 0x11 route add default 192.168.42.1 echo search cablelynx.com /etc/resolv.conf echo nameserver 24.204.0.4 /etc/resolv.conf echo nameserver 24.204.0.5 /etc/resolv.conf echo ${NIC} ;; dyn) ifconfig ${NIC} ssid datawok wepmode on wepkey 0x11 dhclient ${NIC} echo ${NIC} ;; stop) [ -s /var/run/dhclient.pid ] kill `cat /var/run/dhclient.pid` rm /var/run/dhclient.pid ifconfig ${NIC} remove echo ${NIC} removed ;; status) ifconfig ${NIC} ;; *) echo usage: /usr/local/etc/${NIC} [start|dyn|stop|status] ;; esac ##end of script Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 01:38 pm, scott renna wrote: Andrew, Just saw your post and was wondering how you were able to get the Dlink-G520 to work. I'm running 5.2.1 currently and tried to add additional devices into my kernel according to a post I found on the subject: they mention to add: device ath_hal # Dlink Support device hal # Dlink card support and recompile the kernel however my 5.2 says it doesn't know what hal is. have you gotten that dlink to work on 5.2.1 or just 5.3? -scott Replace device hal with device ath.:-) Dr. Seuss could have had such fun with a kernel config file! Also, if you comment out unused hardware devices, make sure you didn't comment out device wlan. (yep, this is the mistake I made.) Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:47 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: I'm using the following atheros products successfully: D-Link DWL-G520 (pci in a generic desktop running FreeBSD 5.3RC1) D-Link DWL-G650 (pccard in a Dell Inspiron 8100 running FreeBSD 5.2.1) I went out a grabbed a DWL-G650. It needed a little encouragement, but not much. It began _trying_ to associate immediately.. but kept flip flopping from b/g/b/g... so I forced it to g and it works fine. Not sure what was up with the Blitzz cards. They have the same chipset. FYI: D-Link is displaying the Atheros logo on the retail boxes of its atheros chipset products; which should make purchasing these easier. I use the script below, with a real wep code and different IP addresses, for each of these devices. Other than setting hostname info in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/hosts, I haven't edited any other network configuration files. (Beware the effects of email wordwrap.) I have not tried the script yet, but would like to. I'm still a bit new to BSD/*nix How does it work? Its under the rc.d folder so it runs automagically right. Who/what provides the parameter you switch on? and under what circumstances would each case get executed? #!/bin/sh # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ath0 NIC=ath0 case $1 in start) ifconfig ${NIC} inet 192.168.42.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid datawok wepmode on wepkey 0x11 Thanks for the help! -- Regards, Eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 09:33 pm, Eric Schuele wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:47 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: I'm using the following atheros products successfully: D-Link DWL-G520 (pci in a generic desktop running FreeBSD 5.3RC1) D-Link DWL-G650 (pccard in a Dell Inspiron 8100 running FreeBSD 5.2.1) I went out a grabbed a DWL-G650. It needed a little encouragement, but not much. It began _trying_ to associate immediately.. but kept flip flopping from b/g/b/g... so I forced it to g and it works fine. Not sure what was up with the Blitzz cards. They have the same chipset. FYI: D-Link is displaying the Atheros logo on the retail boxes of its atheros chipset products; which should make purchasing these easier. I use the script below, with a real wep code and different IP addresses, for each of these devices. Other than setting hostname info in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/hosts, I haven't edited any other network configuration files. (Beware the effects of email wordwrap.) I have not tried the script yet, but would like to. I'm still a bit new to BSD/*nix How does it work? Its under the rc.d folder so it runs automagically right. Who/what provides the parameter you switch on? and under what circumstances would each case get executed? /snip/ Thanks for the help! I put the script under /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. FreeBSD will attempt to execute any file in that directory that ends with .sh during bootup and shutdown. During bootup, it will execute the file with the argument start. During shutdown, it will execute the file with the argument stop. In the script's current state, ath0 is configured at bootup with a static IP address. To use dhcp after bootup, root would have to execute the following commands: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ath0 stop /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ath0 dyn The first command would undo the static IP configuration. The second command would execute dhclient per the dyn section of the script. If you wanted to use dhcp at bootup, you would have to change start) to something else; and then change dyn) to start). Please note that if your using the script for a pccard, the card needs to be inserted prior to bootup for configuration to occur automatically. If not, /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ath0 start would need to be executed manually after bootup. I hope this helps. Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dell Laptop Monitor
Dear All I have an inspiron 2650 from dell. I install FreeBSD 5.0 on , and it works. But when i start KDE the main monitor screen start to scramble and like a signal on scope ;) but my external monitor works properlly. Does any one know what can i do to my setting to make it work. Thanx Soheil Hassas Yeganeh _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]