Did you check on the hardware compatibility list if the wi chipset is
supported and with what driver? Did you check on
the laptop compatibility list what was report on your laptop. If the
device can work people probably left documentation
how was done.
It is very possible that particular WI device is not supported.
In that case you can do 3 thing.
1. You can ndis windows driver and insert into the kernel so that you
can use the device
2. You can get pccard which is supported and forget about that device
3. Check if it supported in 7.0 (which has better support for WI) and
install that one.
Take care
Predrag
Thomas D. Dean wrote:
I have an HP dv6000 series notebook with a wireless network device
which worked under windows. The notebook had windows when I obtained
it. I installed FreeBSD 6.2 and upgraded to -stable.
I cannot configure the wireless network or do anything with it. This
may be between my ears or it may be a problem in configuration.
The kernel is compiled from sys/i386/conf/SMP, with no changes.
How do I interact with this device? What else should I look at?
# uname -a
FreeBSD dv6000.tddhome 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: \
Sat Aug 25 15:34:55 PDT 2007 \
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
After boot -v, I see
# desg | grep -i ath
ath_rate: version 1.2 SampleRate bit-rate selection algorithm
ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
# kldstat -v | grep wlan
289 wlan_ccmp
290 wlan_tkip
291 wlan_wep
292 wlan
# kldstat -v | grep ath
66 ath_hal
67 ath_rate
68 pci/if_ath
69 cardbus/if_ath
# sysctl -a | grep -i hw.ath
hw.ath.hal.version: 0.9.20.3
hw.ath.hal.dma_brt: 2
hw.ath.hal.sw_brt: 10
hw.ath.hal.swba_backoff: 0
hw.ath.dwell: 200
hw.ath.calibrate: 30
hw.ath.outdoor: 1
hw.ath.xchanmode: 1
hw.ath.countrycode: 0
hw.ath.regdomain: 0
hw.ath.rxbuf: 40
hw.ath.txbuf: 100
tomdean
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