[nycbug-talk] Wireless internet card on FreeBSD laptop

[Gordon Smith]

Rambius,

Last summer I was able to get my cruddy Jetbook laptop working just fine
with FreeBSD 5.4 and a Linksys 802.11G card using "The NDISulator" (a.k.a.
"Project Evil") which creates a clever FreeBSD kernel-compatible wrapper
around an NDIS NIC driver (intended to be installed under Windows).  

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.h
tml 
"27.3.3.6.3 802.11a & 802.11g Clients"

Using a true native driver might be preferable, but Project Evil *is* a
viable option.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Gordon Smith

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nycbug.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nycbug.org]
On Behalf Of Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:33 PM
To: talk at lists.nycbug.org
Subject: [nycbug-talk] Wireless internet card on FreeBSD laptop

Hello,

I have a laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 on it and I am very glad with it.
Recently, I received a card for wireless internet - it is a Verizon
Wireless PC5740 card. I would like to run it on my laptop under
FreeBSD. Can you provide me some pointers and hints how I can do this.
I did some searching on it and I found [1], which contains instruction
on how to change the kernel. I followed them and built successfully my
kernel wih them, but the problem is that when I plug the card in the
laptop, dmesg does not show anything.

Could you please provide me some help for setting up the card? Thank
you very much in advance.

Regards
Rambius

[1]
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/077555.ht
ml

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