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Hello!<br>
<br>
I have had a complicated history with DFLY. I have tried it this
winter for the first time and i have had a problem with my video
card (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.dragonfly-bsd.user/727">http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.dragonfly-bsd.user/727</a>).
After that I have installed the development branch I have had a
problem brought about the boot loader: the ntldr file of Windows 8,
my first OS, has missed and I was unable to boot it. After this I
have understood that bootblock is not necessary: you can boot DFLY
by EasyBCD, very simple, practical and sure for undeveloped people
like me that use Windows.<br>
But it was nothing in comparison with the next accident. I have used
pkgng to install Xorg: very good, fast, efficient, but it has
required so much resources that my computer has crashed. This has
damaged the HD. I have tried to rescue the most important data, but
I wasn't able to save all of them, and I was obliged to buy a new
HD. Surely I would be get rid of DFLY forever if it would have been
the only or the principal cause of the disaster. The principal cause
was my fan: I had "forgotten" to clean it after two years of
intensive work and the machine warmed up too much.<br>
<br>
OK. Now the new problem. I have installed DFLY 3.4 (x86_64 GUI iso)
in my laptop (Toshiba Satellite L555.11L) in a 60 GB partition. The
installation went well, although slow (more than an hour). Now I can
try to use the OS. It has progressed a lot from this winter, it is
fast and I can tell also stable, but I haven't an ADSL or a cable
connection, only a WiFi. My card is a Realtek RTL8191SE Wireless LAN
802.11n PCI-E NIC. It was recognized in this manner at the boot
(from dmesg):<br>
"rlphy0: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 <br>
rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto" <br>
My WiFi device is a usb/hotspot Huawei Mobile WiFi E5776s-32. It has
been recognized generically:<br>
"ucom0: <HUAWEI Technology HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev
2.00/1.02, addr 5> on <br>
uhub3 ucom1: <HUAWEI Technology HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev
2.00/1.02, addr 5> on uhub3 <br>
...<br>
da9: <HUAWEI TF CARD Storage 2.31> Removable Direct Access
SCSI-2 device <br>
da9: 40.000MB/s transfers da9: Attempt to query device size failed:
NOT READY, Medium not present".<br>
<br>
I think that I have two possibilities to use this device: like a usb
(ugensa?) and simply like a hotspot. To use like a hotspot I need to
configure a WiFi connection. I have found some documentation and I
have read it, but there isn't a good manual: not a specific manual
for one device or an other, but a general guide about how to setup a
WiFi connection under DFLY. The most and only clear - for a newbie
or "normal" user - howto that I found (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/unknown/WifiAndWPA">http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/unknown/WifiAndWPA</a>)
is outdated! I have added some lines to the files loader.conf,
rc.conf, wpa_supplicant.conf in a disordered manner, following the
instructions of the FreeBSD handbook (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/9.0-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/freebsd/handbook/network-wireless.html">http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/9.0-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/freebsd/handbook/network-wireless.html</a>),
the GhostBSD faq (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.ghostbsd.org/index.php?title=FAQ#Why_my_WiFi_don.27t_work.3F">http://wiki.ghostbsd.org/index.php?title=FAQ#Why_my_WiFi_don.27t_work.3F</a>)
and reading some other text specific to DFLY (for example, <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/HowToSetUpIpw2200/">http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/HowToSetUpIpw2200/</a>).
Nothing to do! Surely I have forgotten something and I have made
some mistake. Result: I am unable to connect my laptop to Internet
to install packages and updates, to go beyond FVWM - very poor
compared to Mate, XFCE or KDE - and to begin to use DFLY properly.
Some advice?<br>
<br>
Micman<br>
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