Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-11 Thread Warren Liddell
Which Belkin wireless card do you have? Which arch are you running (i386/amd64)? I had horrific trouble with a Belkin on the Realtek chipset, played up with Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Fedora, even Windows! Trouble with Belkin is, you never know what you're getting. You need the revision number of

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-11 Thread Warren Liddell
Please provide more detailed informatio. Card model, at least, or the output of pciconf -lv supposing that you have a real card, either internal or PCMCIA. If it is a USB model, then use usbdevs -v [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3:5:0: class=0x02 card=0x700f1799 chip=0x700f1799

Wireless net Card

2008-08-09 Thread Warren Liddell
I downloaded the drivers for the chipset my belkin wireless card has, used ndisgen to create the kernel module, which all went aok .. however when trying to load the module it hard hangs the machine to the point of it restarting itself .. is there something i perhaps mybe missing or am i out in

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-07 Thread Warren Liddell
On Thursday 07 August 2008 14:21:41 David Gurvich wrote: FreeBSD and Linux are different operating systems. There is no compatibility between them. FreeBSD has an emulation layer which works for a limited subset of Linux binary programs. These are not kernel drivers. Your best bet on

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-06 Thread Warren Liddell
On Wednesday 06 August 2008 06:52:51 David Gurvich wrote: I believe that card uses the Realtek 8185L chipset. You may be able to get ndis driver to work with it. Download the winxp driver from http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1PNid=24PFi

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-06 Thread David Gurvich
I thought you were asking about a FreeBSD driver. If you are using Linux then the driver may work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-06 Thread Warren Liddell
On Wednesday 06 August 2008 23:00:50 David Gurvich wrote: I thought you were asking about a FreeBSD driver. If you are using Linux then the driver may work. I am using FreeBSD, but was wondering if the Linux driver may be backwards comnpat to suit the needs im wanting ?

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-06 Thread David Gurvich
FreeBSD and Linux are different operating systems. There is no compatibility between them. FreeBSD has an emulation layer which works for a limited subset of Linux binary programs. These are not kernel drivers. Your best bet on FreeBSD is to check the status for your chipset in CURRENT or to

Setting up Wireless net Card

2008-08-05 Thread Warren Liddell
Im trying to setup//configure my Belkin Wireless Card, but since i have had it for a while in a windows machine, im no clue about using a wireless card in FreeBSD an not as yet able to find to many sources//articles that can give me a head start on where to go to begin finding the cards chipset

Re: Setting up Wireless net Card

2008-08-05 Thread Edward Ruggeri
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im trying to setup//configure my Belkin Wireless Card, but since i have had it for a while in a windows machine, im no clue about using a wireless card in FreeBSD an not as yet able to find to many sources//articles that

Re: Setting up Wireless net Card

2008-08-05 Thread Warren Liddell
Run ifconfig; if your card's driver is built into the GENERIC kernel (it likely is), then iconfig should list it. Alternatively, you can run pciconf -lv. If you can't find your card in either of these, please copy the output of those two to the list. (Hint: a goodway to save the output of

Re: Setting up Wireless net Card

2008-08-05 Thread David Gurvich
I believe that card uses the Realtek 8185L chipset. You may be able to get ndis driver to work with it. Download the winxp driver from http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1PNid=24PFid=1Level=6Conn=5DownTypeID=3GetDown=falseDownloads=true I don't know if there is