SMCWPCI-G and FreeBSD 6?
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From: Lars Stokholm on 11 Jan 2007 17:30 On 2007-01-10, Lars Stokholm <this(a)is.invalid> wrote: > Is SMC's SMCWPCI-G card supported natively by FreeBSD 6(-STABLE)? I was told that it is, but it doesn't show up in 'ifconfig', after loading the ath kernel module (kldload ath). Is there anything else I would need to do?
From: "Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman" on 11 Jan 2007 20:31 On 01/12/2007 04:00 AM, Lars Stokholm wrote: > On 2007-01-10, Lars Stokholm <this(a)is.invalid> wrote: >> Is SMC's SMCWPCI-G card supported natively by FreeBSD 6(-STABLE)? > > I was told that it is, but it doesn't show up in 'ifconfig', after > loading the ath kernel module (kldload ath). Is there anything else > I would need to do? Try: kldload if_ath instead, and look at dmesg |tail -- Dr Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 Anu's Linux(a)HOME Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Distros: Ubuntu, Fedora, Knoppix Home: http://cto.homelinux.net/~bsd/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/
From: Lars Stokholm on 12 Jan 2007 01:29 On 2007-01-12, Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM(a)cto.homelinux.net> wrote: >> I was told that it is, but it doesn't show up in 'ifconfig', after >> loading the ath kernel module (kldload ath). Is there anything else >> I would need to do? > > Try: > > kldload if_ath Sorry, that was in fact what I did. Not 'kldload ath' like I said. > instead, and look at dmesg |tail There's only one line; one regarding ath_hal. I don't recall exactly what it said, but if it's of any interest, I will of course find out. Thanks.
From: "Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman" on 12 Jan 2007 03:06 On 01/12/2007 11:59 AM, Lars Stokholm wrote: >> Try: >> >> kldload if_ath > > Sorry, that was in fact what I did. Not 'kldload ath' like I said. > >> instead, and look at dmesg |tail > > There's only one line; one regarding ath_hal. I don't recall > exactly what it said, but if it's of any interest, I will of > course find out. You need to check if the said WLAN NIC is recognized by ath(4) driver: # gmesg |grep ^ath If the above does not reveal anything about ath[0-9], your NIC may not be based on Atheros chipset. BTW, is it possible you tell us more about your WLAN NIC; is it a (Mini)-PCI and, or USB? Have you read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html Hope that helps, -- Dr Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 Anu's Linux(a)HOME Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Distros: Ubuntu, Fedora, Knoppix Home: http://cto.homelinux.net/~bsd/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/
From: Lars Stokholm on 12 Jan 2007 07:24
On 2007-01-12, Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM(a)cto.homelinux.net> wrote: > You need to check if the said WLAN NIC is recognized by ath(4) driver: > > # gmesg |grep ^ath No results. > If the above does not reveal anything about ath[0-9], your NIC may not > be based on Atheros chipset. You may be right: http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility#SMCWPCIG/SMCWPCIGEU Damnit, I just bought it, specifically for FreeBSD. :( > BTW, is it possible you tell us more about your WLAN NIC; is it a > (Mini)-PCI and, or USB? PCI; this is the card: http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProduct&localeCode=EN_GBR&cid=5&scid=31&pid=1461 > Have you read > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html Yep. > Hope that helps, In any case, thank you for trying. |