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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:
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>> Hi.
>>
>> Can you put the   ifconfig -a   output ?
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> 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.
>>
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>                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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