Re: Laptop Intel Wireless drivers?

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Jan 14, 2010, at 10:38 PM, ficovh wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Can you put the   ifconfig -a   output ?
> 
And the full dmesg from boot-time, if it's not being recognized at all.
> 
> 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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> 


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb