wireless adapter not recognized

[tomm]

Is there any way to get FreeBSD or PC-BSD to recognize my D-link wireless adapter?

 

[wblock@]

Short answer: maybe.

Longer answer: not possible, no model number or FreeBSD version number given.

 

[tomm]

re model # and version

I have just installed the latest version of PC-BSD--8.1--and my wireless adapter model is D-Link DWA-130 Wireless N USB Adapter with the model #DWA 130.

 

[wblock@]

I have just installed the latest version of PC-BSD--8.1--and my wireless adapter model is D-Link DWA-130 Wireless N USB Adapter with the model #DWA 130.

Apparently there are at least two revisions of the DWA-130. Revision A1 is a Marvell, where the only hope is ndisgen(8). Revision B1 is a Realtek 2870, which the run(4) driver should support, but may not be in PC-BSD yet.

 

[tomm]

Thanks for reply. I will check out what adapter version I have.

 

[aragon]

Easiest way to be sure is to just plug it in and grab the device ID from /var/log/messages.

 

[tomm]

Thanks, I'll try that.