How do you turn ON - WiFi NIC ??

[Ben Hacker Jr]

Hello,

I have a laptop with internal wireless capability. It has functioned in the past in PC-BSD7. There is an external switch to disable the wireless WiFi and BlueTooth. I left the switch ON (to have bluetooth) and disabled the Wireless adapter via the Network Manager while I had Wired network access available.

For some reason, now I cannot get the wireless adapter to come back on. I believe this is simply a configuration issue because I can dual boot into WindowsXP and access the wireless WiFi just fine.

Wireless LAN: Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Network Connection (802.11a/b/g)3

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model- ... =VGNUX280P

user@pcbsd% uname -a
FreeBSD pcbsd 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Nov 24 20:22:16 EST 2008
     root@pcbsdx32-7:/usr/obj/pcbsd-build/cvs/7.0.2-src/sys/PCBSD  i386

user@pcbsd% dmesg | grep wpi
wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG> mem 0xd2000000-0xd2000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
wpi0: Ethernet address: 00:18:de:10:33:29
wpi0: [ITHREAD]
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 1
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 3
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 4
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 1
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 3
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 4
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 1
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 3
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 4
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 1
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 3
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 4
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 1
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 3
wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 4


user@pcbsd% dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Nov 24 20:22:16 EST 2008
    root@pcbsdx32-7:/usr/obj/pcbsd-build/cvs/7.0.2-src/sys/PCBSD
module_register: module cpu/ichss already exists!
Module cpu/ichss failed to register: 17
module_register: module cpu/est already exists!
Module cpu/est failed to register: 17
module_register: module cpu/p4tcc already exists!
Module cpu/p4tcc failed to register: 17
module_register: module cpu/powernow already exists!
Module cpu/powernow failed to register: 17
module_register: module cpu/smist already exists!
Module cpu/smist failed to register: 17
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU           U1400  @ 1.20GHz (1197.01-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6e8  Stepping = 8
  Features=0xafe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,
CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE>
  Features2=0xc1a9<SSE3,MON,VMX,EST,TM2,xTPR,PDCM>
  AMD Features=0x100000<NX>
real memory  = 1063780352 (1014 MB)
avail memory = 1027252224 (979 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <Sony N2>
ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
ath_hal: 0.10.5.6 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, 
RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417)
acpi0: <Sony> on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
acpi_ec0: <Embedded Controller: GPE 0x17> port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0x1800-0x1807 mem 0xd4200000-0xd427ffff,
0xc0000000-0xcfffffff,0xd4300000-0xd433f
fff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: <Intel 82945GM (945GM GMCH) SVGA controller> on vgapci0
agp0: detected 7932k stolen memory
agp0: aperture size is 256M
vgapci1: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xd4280000-0xd42fffff at device 2.1 on pci0
pci0: <multimedia> at device 27.0 (no driver attached)
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 28.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG> mem 0xd2000000-0xd2000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
wpi0: Ethernet address: 00:18:de:10:33:29
wpi0: [ITHREAD]
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 17 at device 28.1 on pci0
pci6: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
mskc0: <Marvell Yukon 88E8036 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xd4000000-0xd4003fff 
irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci6
msk0: <Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon FE Id 0xb7 Rev 0x01> on mskc0
msk0: Ethernet address: 00:13:a9:41:0d:b7
miibus0: <MII bus> on msk0
e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E3082 10/100 Fast Ethernet PHY> PHY 0 on miibus0
e1000phy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
mskc0: [FILTER]
 - - - - - - -  additional listing deleted.

below is the ending of my /etc/rc.conf:

user@pcbsd% cat /etc/rc.conf
 . . .
# Enable the firewall
pf_rules="/etc/pf.conf"
pf_enable="YES"
pf_flags=""

# Enable ipfw and open it by default since we have PF
firewall_enable="YES"
firewall_type="open"

hostname="pcbsd"
ifconfig_msk0="DHCP"
ifconfig_wpi0="WPA DHCP"
oss_enable="NO"
snddetect_enable="YES"
mixer_enable="YES"

Any help would be greatly appreciated..

Ben