Re: Belkin wireless support

"Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
  Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop) wrote:

> After the email from Warner I picked up the Belkin. It is a F5D6020 
> with a free F5D6000. I haven't tried it with the PCI adapter yet, but 
> the pcmcia by itself works in my laptop with FreeBSD 4.7 from last 
> night and the following in my /etc/pccard.conf:
>
> card "Belkin" "11Mbps Wireless Notebook Network Adapter"
>        config  auto "wi" ? 0x10000
>        insert  /etc/pccard_ether $device start
>        remove  /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
>
> It's not starting the network like my WPC-11 does, but this gets it 
> detected and then I just run my wireless.sh file (by hand) which sets 
> the wireless network parameters. I'm using it now to send this email. 
> I love it when a plan comes together!
>
> thanks,
> -mark
>
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I forgot the:
    insert  /usr/local/sbin/wireless.sh

that's why it wasn't starting the network. For what it's worth, it also 
works with dstumbler. Nice cheap card with a simple setup. Warner, you 
rule! Thanks for all of the great work!

thanks,
-mark



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