Hey bsth123,
Sorry to see you're still struggling with the wireless on the T43 ... Have you tried Arch again ? As mentioned previously, I have found its support for wireless fairly complete and you have an Intel mini-PCI, so it shouldn't be that much of an issue. Let me know if you decide to give Arch another go (don't forget, February 2017 ISO or earlier for 32-bit ...). Cheers ! |
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https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwi You will need to read the man page and also the FreeBSD handbook pages on wifi configuration. But, you should only need to add these two lines to loader.conf(5) Code:
if_iwi_load="YES" Code:
wlans_iwi0="wlan0" Code:
network={ MY_PSK = Put your wireless network key here You can also generate the file by using the wpa_passphrase tool from the command line. e.g. Code:
# wpa_passphrase MY_ESSID MY_PSK > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf Once configured, reboot and the connection should come up (unless you've made typos or missed steps, etc...) |
I already have wpa_supplicant configured aand this line in /etc/rc.conf
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ifconfig_bge0="DHCP" edit: as root when I try to modify loader.conf says it's unwritable shadow_7 I forgot to mention one of the first things I installed was nano. :) |
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It exists. I already checked. i googled but couldn't find anything. I was showing my broadcom wired connection as an example. Thanks
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If it exists, it can be modified by root. (hint: root can hose the whole system)
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I figured out the problem. In freebsd you cannot su to root by default. The answer is supposed to be to add wheel to user but that's never worked for me. So you have to boot into single user mode. I forgot that the partition had to be mounted first. Anyway I read the link and carefully followed your instructions with no luck. The other thing is that /boot/loader.conf was empty until I added those lines. But I read the documentation and since everything is working fine I left it alone.
I'm very familiar with root and I know that rm -rf is one command I will never use. I may be new but I read a lot. |
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A netinst is great for any hardware and on old why sacrifice, go stretch/sid... imho. ;)
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Jamisom I appreciate it but as I've said repeatedly this was all about the learning process and I've learned a lot. |
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:hattip : |
I have debian on my new laptop. Unfortunately some people don't understand even though I've stated repeatedly I'm not looking for easy.
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