Re: Laptop Intel Wireless drivers?

[ficovh <ficovh%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi.

Can you put the   ifconfig -a   output ?

Regards.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Stripes the Tiger Cub
<bengaltigerstripes%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've Googled this previously, but my Google-fu is failing me. Either
> that, or no one else has run into this problem :-)
>
> I'm installing NetBSD 5.0.1 on a Thinkpad X200. I was able to get
> Debian recognizing the wireless drivers (Intel on it after installing
> the firmware. However, it's not clear what I need to do to get NetBSD
> to recognize the wireless. The scanpci output only has a lot of
> unrecognized Intel hardwire, but it doesn't even look like it sees the
> wireless. It found the wired card (wm0) without any issues.
>
> The wireless card is either an Intel 5100 802.11abgn or Intel 5300
> 802.11abgn. If there's no solution, I can go out and get a supported
> PCMCIA card or USB network card today. I haven't taken away the option
> of "throwing money (e.g. an external network card) at the problem."
>
> Any suggestions? That's the last bit I need to get the basic system
> working before I do a lot of makes in pkgsrc :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Anne
>
> --
> ///stripes/// - bengaltigerstripes%gmail.com@localhost
>



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