Wireless MSI PCMCIA card model: CB11B2

[nenapop]

Hi...

I am new on the forum but i whant to learn the linux system.... as far as it is, i am not going well withi learning. so can enyone help me please...

I am having PC-BSD instaled on my laptop, but the software doesn`t recognises my wireless card. I am beging you, enyone, to post a solution, how could i instal this wireless card. thanks...

[dracheflieger]

Welcome to the forums. You will learn little of Linux here but if you stick around, you may learn some UNIX/Free/PC-BSD ;-)

Here is the FreeBSD Wireless Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html) and I don't know how far they are but you may want to down load the latest snapshot and see if it will set it up for you. It can be found here: http://dev.pcbsd.org/snapshots/

[nenapop]

Thanx a lot for this manual, and i have downloaded the latest bsd screenshot, but i dont have empty disk to burn it on :D

Can you explain me how to inport the windows drivers for my msi pcmcia card.

Thanx

[dracheflieger]

I've never tried but man ndisgen 8
NDISGEN(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual NDISGEN(8)

NAME
ndisgen -- generate a FreeBSD driver module from a Windows(R) NDIS driver
distribution

SYNOPSIS
ndisgen [/path/to/INF /path/to/SYS]

DESCRIPTION
The ndisgen script uses the ndiscvt(8) utility and other tools to gener-
ate a FreeBSD loadable driver module and a static ELF object module from
a Windows(R) NDIS driver, for use with the ndis(4) compatibility module.

The ndisgen script is interactive and contains its own help section.
Unless the paths to both files are supplied on the command line, the
script will prompt the user for the .INF and .SYS files needed to gener-
ate the FreeBSD driver module. The script will also prompt for any
firmware or other external files needed.

SEE ALSO
ld(1), objcopy(1), ndis(4), kldload(8), ndiscvt(8), ndisapi(9)

HISTORY
The ndisgen utility first appeared in FreeBSD 6.0.

AUTHORS
The ndisgen utility was written by Bill Paul <wpaul@windriver.com>.

[nenapop]

This ISO image of the pcbsd snapshot PCBSD-x86-Fri.iso, i have burn it on the disk, but when i wanna boot the system it says that cannotfind loader. And when i use the ndisgen, it converts something but at the end it prints on the screen that some files are missing in kernel folder... HELP

[dracheflieger]

You probably need to download your sources...see Chapter 5 of the Quick Guide on your desktop, the Tasks tab.

[nenapop]

easy for you to say, but how to download everything when i cannot install the driver

[dracheflieger]

Does your laptop not have a wired network port?..if not, you got the install disk somehow...here are the sources to download as a PBI. http://www.pbidir.com/packages.php?code=436

[nenapop]

no, i am not, i dont have lan card, i just have wireless card and it has to be connected through PCMCIA card slot.

BTW how to install this sources... duble click...or... some commands over terminal console?

[dracheflieger]

All PBIs (Push Button Installer) are double click installs

[nenapop]

I see... :lol: :D ....

BTW thanks for that link, i have downloaded the sources, and i have doble click on them, and it stils extracking... after that,,.. what should i do... ??

[nenapop]

i have finish with the instalation wisard and, i have try converting files for my card using NDISGEN and at the end of the creating a file it sayse this:


Generating makefile...DONE
Building kernel module...."/usr/share/mk/bsd.kmod.mk", line 12: "can`t find kernel source tree"
build failed. Exiting..


heeelpppp meee

[antik]

Generating makefile...DONE
Building kernel module...."/usr/share/mk/bsd.kmod.mk", line 12: "can`t find kernel source tree"
build failed. Exiting..


heeelpppp meee

# cvsup /root/standard-supfile

[nenapop]

did that, but it tryes to connect to internet for cvsup.freebsd.org. but cant couse IT AIN`T WORKING

[antik]

did that, but it tryes to connect to internet for cvsup.freebsd.org. but cant couse IT AIN`T WORKING

THEN CHOOSE ANOTHER MIRROR!

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO885 ... cvsup.html (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html)

[nenapop]

No DUDE how am I sopouse to connect to internet when my WLAN card doesent work....

BTW.. where can i find this cvsup, but .pbi package....

[antik]

No DUDE how am I sopouse to connect to internet when my WLAN card doesent work....

BTW.. where can i find this cvsup, but .pbi package....

Then start with your internet connection problem first not bitch about cvsup not working. What is your WiFi card?

[nenapop]

I have... :lol:. read the top of the topic.

[antik]

I have... :lol:. read the top of the topic.

Uhh, sry- I will read later more carefully :P

[nenapop]

i am trying to setup the MSI PCMCIA WIreless card on PC-BSD. Is there any way to update the sistem somehow through some instalation package. I have usb 2.0 :D , so i though that the best way is to copy files from my comp to laptop.

[MD]

Does your laptop not have a wired network port?..if not, you got the install disk somehow...here are the sources to download as a PBI. http://www.pbidir.com/packages.php?code=436


Link no longer works is there a new pbi? or can some port be downloaded...

my rj45 jack broke years ago. My WIFI stopped working on windows and pcbsd a week or so ago. I have a pcmcia WIFI card that works in windows but not pcbsd. I'm getting the same no source found error when trying to build from the window files.

My dsl modem does have a USB connection but don't know how to get it to work.

Any suggestions. I'll try reading that handbook mentioned for now.

[TerryP]

The FreeBSD source code PBI's have never been maintained.


The developers released two builds, I released one, nether of us have kept up with it over the years. Because you can now find a copy on PC-BSD CD#2 since the last several releases of PC-BSD.