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Old 6th June 2010
rpindy rpindy is offline
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
Now, it is time to look at the output of "ifconfig bwi0" and see what it says about the status of your wireless networks.
bwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:14:bf:74:65:8e
priority: 4
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
status: no network
ieee80211: nwid ""

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Originally Posted by tetrodozombie View Post
I have a Dell latitude with the bwi0 and you have to install the firmware after you install OpenBSD. So, that means you need another computer that gets on the net and go to the OpenBSD site, go to the man pages on the web, search for bwi and it should have a link to point you to or download the firmware update. Once you have it put it on a thumb drive, cd, whatever and keep a copy. I just use any number of usb wifi at install, so I can get net access myself and get the bwi0 firmware update. Hope this helps.
I did that already- I installed the firmware linked to in a man page above using pkg_add. There are a few other man pages I'll probably have to look at. The card I have is about 3 years old so I'm thinking (and hoping) it's not a "newer card" that's unsupported.
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