what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg?

2008-07-24 Thread Steve Franks
The only stumbling block to ditching windows on my laptop is a network card. I have a vanilla ath card that works fine under win32 and fedora, as well as a lucent-branded wi card. Neither even appears in dmesg when I put it in pccard0/cbb0. If I stick a compact flash card in an adapter,

Re: what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg?

2008-07-24 Thread David Gurvich
You need to make certain all the necessary modules for your card are loaded. Try 'kldload ath' and then put the card in and see if that does anything. Also, use 'pciconf -lv' to confirm what the card is detected as. See the handbook on wireless configuration if that works.

Re: what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg?

2008-07-24 Thread Steve Franks
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:32 AM, David Gurvich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to make certain all the necessary modules for your card are loaded. Try 'kldload ath' and then put the card in and see if that does

Re: what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg?

2008-07-24 Thread Steve Franks
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:56 AM, David Gurvich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some atheros cards are not supported. Is there any error message? What is the card actually called? No error messages to speak of. It's like it's not there. It works fine in all my older laptops as ath0, I should have

Re: what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg?

2008-07-24 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
No error messages to speak of. It's like it's not there. It works fine in all my older laptops as ath0, I should have mentioned earlier. Really hating having bought a compaq. does your PCMICA slot even work in FreeBSD, I have a Lenovo Notebook that it doesn;t even work. maybe try sending a

Re: what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg?

2008-07-24 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only stumbling block to ditching windows on my laptop is a network card. I have a vanilla ath card that works fine under win32 and fedora, as well as a lucent-branded wi card. Neither even appears in dmesg when I

Re: what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg?

2008-07-24 Thread Steve Franks
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No error messages to speak of. It's like it's not there. It works fine in all my older laptops as ath0, I should have mentioned earlier. Really hating having bought a compaq. does your PCMICA slot even work in