View Single Post
  #2   (View Single Post)  
Old 22nd August 2013
caravel caravel is offline
Port Guard
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 25
Default

I gave up and plugged in a wireless USB dongle which seems to work ok for now. Here's some details for anyone who's interested.

Code:
$ cat /etc/rc.conf

# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sun Aug 18 11:08:56 2013
# Created: Sun Aug 18 11:08:56 2013
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
inetd_enable="NO"
keymap="uk.iso"
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
wlans_rum0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
Part of dmesg
Code:
ugen4.2: <Abocom> at usbus4
rum0: <Abocom 802.11 bg WLAN, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2> on usbus4
rum0: MAC/BBP RT2573 (rev 0x2573a), RF RT2528
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad6s1a
wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:12:0e:a2:15:13
wlan0: link state changed to UP
rum0: need to implement rum_update_mcast
//edit: the dongle seems to overheat and causes the system to freeze or reboot. Back to the BCM4318 and bwi...

//edit2: I went out and bought an Atheros AR9227 based wireless pci card - only to find that it's not supported by FreeBSD 8.x ... not too sure about 9.x now either... oh well, I am going to go back to trying to get 9.x installed - downloaded 9.2 RC3 yesterday...

//edit3: It works fine in 9.2 RC3, but I had to manually reconfigure. Ah well end of thread.

//edit4: Finally got 9.1 installed and the AR9227 is working well - the end.

Last edited by caravel; 9th September 2013 at 11:01 AM.
Reply With Quote