Fwd: Re: Laptop Intel Wireless drivers?

["Nino on NetBSD 4.0" <nbsdold%gmx.net@localhost>]

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Datum: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:01:05 +0100
Von: "Nino on NetBSD 4.0" <nbsdold%gmx.net@localhost>
An: Stripes the Tiger Cub <bengaltigerstripes%gmail.com@localhost>
Betreff: Re: Laptop Intel Wireless drivers?

There are way more knowledgeable people here
who might help you, but I remember that I once
had a similar problem and recompiling the kernel
with some options turned on, especially relating
to PCI, actually helped me and my card was
recognised. It was on an Acer laptop, though.
Would that be an option for you?

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> Datum: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:49:06 -0800
> Von: Stripes the Tiger Cub <bengaltigerstripes%gmail.com@localhost>
> An: Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>
> CC: ficovh <ficovh%gmail.com@localhost>, netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost
> Betreff: Re: Laptop Intel Wireless drivers?

> Hi Steven,
> 
> It's attached.
> 
> -Anne
> 
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Steven Bellovin 
> <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Francisco Valladolid H.
> >> -- http://bsdguy.net - Jesus Christ follower.
> >>
> >
> >
> >                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> ///stripes/// - bengaltigerstripes%gmail.com@localhost

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