nic drivers compiled into kernel

znaya

znaya

hello.

i recently installed freebsd 8.0-release on my asus laptop

i've been following tutorials to make the wireless network card up but... no luck so far. all the tutorials are for freebsd 6, 7

how can i check if the intel/pro wireless 2200bg drivers/ firmware are compiled into the kernel?

thanks
 
znaya said:
how can i check if the intel/pro wireless 2200bg drivers/ firmware are compiled into the kernel?
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Code: 
[cmd=%]man -k 2200[/cmd]
iwi(4)                   - Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 driver

So, see iwi(4).

On 7-STABLE it's not in GENERIC (so it probably isn't in 8.0 either), but you can load the if_iwi module if you like (or recompile your kernel of course). Instructions are in the manpage.

Hope this helps,

Alphons

P.S. Mind you: the wireless system as a whole has changed somewhat between 7.X and 8.0. See this post.
 
thank you so much.

The wireless network support layer (net80211) now uses pseudo-interfaces named as wlanN instead of a device driver
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i didn't understand the mentions to wlan in the man iwi(4), now everything makes more sense.
 
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