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List:       freebsd-questions
Subject:    Re: Installing a Lucent Wavelan Wireless card
From:       Greg Lehey <grog () FreeBSD ! ORG>
Date:       2001-06-30 13:55:38
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On Friday, 29 June 2001 at 19:10:43 -0400, Joe Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Mario Doria wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> How do I install and use a Lucent Wireless card under FBSD 4.3-STABLE, I
>> plugged it in, compiled the driver into the kernel but nothing else
>> happened. What am I missing?
>
> You should be able to install the card, compile the wi or wl driver into
> the kernel,

That's what he did.

> and reboot.  Can you send the output of a dmesg after booting with
> the -v flag?

You don't need to compile the driver into the kernel; just kldload it.
You do need to enable pccard, however, and run pccardd.  If that
happens, you can still run into problems with unknown cards.  For
example, I recently got an IBM wireless card, which is in fact a
repackaged Lucent card, but the ID strings in the CIS are different.
Make sure your pccardd is running and check /var/log/messages for any
messages when you insert and remove the card.

Greg
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