Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 7:56 PM -0600 Scott Bennett 
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 I did.  The only Dell card listed is the Dell TrueMobile 1150, which
I think is a fairly old card that Dell no longer sells.  Dell's recent
catalogues list only the Intel PRO Wireless 2100 and 2200, the Dell
Wireless 1350 and 1450, and the Dell TrueMobile 300 Bluetooth.  The Dell
Wireless 1450, which is the card I'm trying to get to work, is made by
Broadcom, and I think Broadcom makes the chips on it as well.  The wi
driver is for a different manufacturer's chip set, so my guess is that
the wi driver is not applicable to the Dell Wireless 1450.

I hate to say this, but I don't think your card is supported.  It's not 
listed in the HCL, even for 5.3, and it doesn't even look like there are 
linux drivers for it yet.
On the other hand, you may just be able to use it with the ndisulator. 
That's a wrapper around a windows native driver for the card that lets 
you turn it into a FreeBSD loadable kernel object.  You should be 
running 5.3-RELEASE or later for best results.

See ndiscvt(8) and this message (you can ignore all the stuff about 
anon-cvs and building the supporting applications -- the NDIS stuff is 
standard in 5.3, and all you need to do is run ndiscvt and build your 
if_ndis module)

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-August/056835.html
Also, this site is very useful if you're trying to get a laptop working 
under FreeBSD:

http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
Cheers,
Matthew
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Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 7:56 PM -0600 Scott Bennett 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I did.  The only Dell card listed is the Dell TrueMobile 1150, which
I think is a fairly old card that Dell no longer sells.  Dell's recent
catalogues list only the Intel PRO Wireless 2100 and 2200, the Dell
Wireless 1350 and 1450, and the Dell TrueMobile 300 Bluetooth.  The Dell
Wireless 1450, which is the card I'm trying to get to work, is made by
Broadcom, and I think Broadcom makes the chips on it as well.  The wi
driver is for a different manufacturer's chip set, so my guess is that
the wi driver is not applicable to the Dell Wireless 1450.

I hate to say this, but I don't think your card is supported.  It's not 
listed in the HCL, even for 5.3, and it doesn't even look like there are 
linux drivers for it yet.

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Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Scott Bennett
 I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 Dual-
Band card for laptops.  If anyone can point me in the right direction, please
let me know.
 Thanks in advance!


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Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 1:54 PM -0600 Scott Bennett 
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 I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450
Dual- Band card for laptops.  If anyone can point me in the right
direction, please let me know.
It's probably the wi driver, which should be in the default build of 
modern FreeBSD.

Look at man wi(4) and man wicontrol(8).
What do you see when you type % wicontrol -i wi0 -o?
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Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Scott Bennett
 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Fri Dec 24 16:25:40 2004:

--On Friday, December 24, 2004 1:54 PM -0600 Scott Bennett 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450
 Dual- Band card for laptops.  If anyone can point me in the right
 direction, please let me know.

It's probably the wi driver, which should be in the default build of 
modern FreeBSD.

 I don't think so, or at least it isn't obvious that that would be the
right one.

Look at man wi(4) and man wicontrol(8).

 I did.  The only Dell card listed is the Dell TrueMobile 1150, which
I think is a fairly old card that Dell no longer sells.  Dell's recent
catalogues list only the Intel PRO Wireless 2100 and 2200, the Dell Wireless
1350 and 1450, and the Dell TrueMobile 300 Bluetooth.  The Dell Wireless 1450,
which is the card I'm trying to get to work, is made by Broadcom, and I think
Broadcom makes the chips on it as well.  The wi driver is for a different
manufacturer's chip set, so my guess is that the wi driver is not applicable
to the Dell Wireless 1450.

What do you see when you type % wicontrol -i wi0 -o?

wicontrol: SIOCGWAVELAN: Device not configured


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