On January 21, 2016 11:03:38 AM EST, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mott...@libero.it> wrote: >hi, that helped a bit. I found that the card was seeing many >accesspoints, but not the one I was trying to connect to. > >I think the culprit is that the access point is "g" only (asked the >system administrator) while my card is running in "b" mode only. > >This is my dmesg: >ipw0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x1043 (rev. 0x04) >ipw0: interrupting at irq 11 >ipw0: 802.11 address 00:0c:f1:2e:4a:3b >ipw0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps > >The ThinkPad R51 I own (but got second-hand) came with two adapters as >option: intel 2100 and 2200, only the later is b+g capable. > >Can I know from dmesg or with some other tool from NetBSD which version
The information you need is the vendor id and product id, 0x8086 and 0x1043 in this case. A web search for those indicates that you have the 2100 adapter. Eric
