Re: Laptop Wireless
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: The OP replied off-list with his output from dmesg. I'm sending it back to the list in the off-chance that someone knows more about this wireless adapter. -Damian - Forwarded message from Rem P Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the process understandable would be much appreciated. Rem Can you post the dmesg? Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings. -Damian Thanks for the reply, Damian. Here is the dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2006 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 6.1-RELEASE #2: Fri Nov 3 08:22:20 PST 2006 rem@:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/REMKERNEL Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (432.98-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12 Features=0x8021bf AMD Features=0x8800 real memory = 201261056 (191 MB) avail memory = 187408384 (178 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers) ACPI disabled by blacklist. Contact your BIOS vendor. cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: pcibus 0 on motherboard pir0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 agp0: mem 0xe000-0xe3ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 pcm0: port 0x1080-0x10bf,0x1070-0x107f,0x1060-0x106f,0x10c4 -0x10c7,0x10c0-0x10c3 irq 5 at device 9.0 on pci0 cbb0: at device 10.0 on pci0 cardbus0: on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 pci0: at device 15.0 (no driver attached) atapci0: port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfc 90-0xfc9f at device 16.0 on pci0 ata0: on atapci0 ata1: on atapci0 pci0: at device 17.0 (no driver attached) ohci0: mem 0xfc00-0xfc000fff irq 5 at dev ice 20.0 on pci0 ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: at iomem 0xc-0xcb7ff,0xdc000-0xd on isa0 atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: on ppc0 plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 speaker0: at port 0x61 on isa0 unknown: can't assign resources (memory) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (memory) psmcpnp0: irq resource info is missing; assuming irq 12 unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 840C, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode Timecounter "TSC" frequency 432983113 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec cardbus0: CIS pointer is 0! cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=2000 cardbus0: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) ad0: 6194MB at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: DVDROM at ata1-master UDMA33 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a As you can see, it does not recognize the card. Indeed, when I looked at the list of wireless cards in the hardware list the Belkin wireless card was nowhere to be found. It may be that there is no driver for this particular card, and that I may just have to get another card. What do you think? Rem - End forwarded message - A couple of strange things (to me) in the dmesg. 1) ACPI disabled by blacklist. Contact your BIOS vendor ACPI is much preferred to APM. I have never seen this message but assume i
Re: Laptop Wireless
The OP replied off-list with his output from dmesg. I'm sending it back to the list in the off-chance that someone knows more about this wireless adapter. -Damian - Forwarded message from Rem P Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1163208958-311e00bd-Xqh92z X-Barracuda-URL: http://dfspam01.vail:80/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Connect: cprobd02.vailsys.com[63.210.102.130] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1163208958 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:35:54 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061109) To: Damian Wiest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: Laptop Wireless Subject: Re: Laptop Wireless In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Barracuda-Bayes: INNOCENT GLOBAL 0.5363 1. 0.7500 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at vailsys.com X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 1.25 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=1.25 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=2.8 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=3.5 KILL_LEVEL=7.5 tests=BSF_RULE7568M X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.02, rules version 3.0.25571 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description -- -- 0.50 BSF_RULE7568M BODY: Custom Rule 7568M >On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > >>Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old >>Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she >>upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. >>However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) >>notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate >>drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at >>the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at >>this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with >>respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the >>process understandable would be much appreciated. >> >>Rem >> > >Can you post the dmesg? > >Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably >use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings. > >-Damian > > Thanks for the reply, Damian. Here is the dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2006 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 6.1-RELEASE #2: Fri Nov 3 08:22:20 PST 2006 rem@:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/REMKERNEL Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (432.98-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12 Features=0x8021bf AMD Features=0x8800 real memory = 201261056 (191 MB) avail memory = 187408384 (178 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers) ACPI disabled by blacklist. Contact your BIOS vendor. cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: pcibus 0 on motherboard pir0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 agp0: mem 0xe000-0xe3ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 pcm0: port 0x1080-0x10bf,0x1070-0x107f,0x1060-0x106f,0x10c4 -0x10c7,0x10c0-0x10c3 irq 5 at device 9.0 on pci0 cbb0: at device 10.0 on pci0 cardbus0: on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 pci0: at device 15.0 (no driver attached) atapci0: port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfc 90-0xfc9f at device 16.0 on pci0 ata0: on atapci0 ata1: on atapci0 pci0: at device 17.0 (no driver attached) ohci0: mem 0xfc00-0xfc000fff irq 5 at dev ice 20.0 on pci0 ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: at iomem 0xc-0xcb7ff,0xdc000-0xd on isa0 atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: on ppc0 plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 speaker0: at port
Re: Laptop Wireless
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:56:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the process understandable would be much appreciated. Rem Can you post the dmesg? Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings. -Damian http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN This indicates the ed driver works for this card. I don't think so :) There are _no_ Belkin cards listed in the WLAN section of that page. In any case, isn't ed for ethernet nics? -Damian yes my bad :( Posting the dmesg output was a good suggestion. If there is anything useful, the guys on this can help interpert it. If the link to the hardware section does not list your card as I thought the ed driver did, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] man -k wireless will give you at least a partial list of the wireless drivers. If you can match the chipset, you can pick the correct driver. Sometimes the Linux lists are good sources of information because they also use Xorg. As a last resort, I am pretty sure there is a wrapper that will run windows drivers. If you can not get the name from the list archives, the project is hosted on the SourceForge site. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Laptop Wireless
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:56:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: > > >On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > >>Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old > >>Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she > >>upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. > >>However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) > >>notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate > >>drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at > >>the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at > >>this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with > >>respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the > >>process understandable would be much appreciated. > >> > >>Rem > > > >Can you post the dmesg? > > > >Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably > >use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings. > > > >-Damian > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN > > This indicates the ed driver works for this card. I don't think so :) There are _no_ Belkin cards listed in the WLAN section of that page. In any case, isn't ed for ethernet nics? -Damian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Laptop Wireless
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the process understandable would be much appreciated. Rem Can you post the dmesg? Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings. -Damian http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN This indicates the ed driver works for this card. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Laptop Wireless
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old > Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she > upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. > However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) > notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate > drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at > the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at > this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with > respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the > process understandable would be much appreciated. > > Rem Can you post the dmesg? Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings. -Damian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Laptop wireless card
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:57:47 -0400, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going back to traveling a bit, from not traveling at all for several > years. > > I find that a lot of the motels internet access is now wireless only. > > I've got a FreeBSD STABLE laptop, and I was wondering what the best brand > of card to but for it would be? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/hardware-i386.html#AEN1395 You may want to look here for a list of a few. and if you keep up with -STABLE (which is to say are upgrading to 5.3) you will be able to find a similar list provided for it. I cannot really speak for the "best" brand, but I used the Netgear MA401 in my last laptop and it worked while...while it lasted. It's kind of a 3 - 6 month lifespan card, but was supported and thin enough that my other pcmcia slot was open. I've moved to built-in recently and use one of the atheros chipsets. I am much more happy with this solution, personally. I've heard that the orinoco chipset is in some cards that are both high-reception and sturdy. Perhaps cards by IBM or Cisco is where to look for higher quality cards. But again, I went with the Netgear because it was like 10ish dollars on ebay. Good luck :) -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
