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HTC Wildfire freebsd

admin — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:39:59 +0000

This post describes how to mount htc wildfire flash disk on FreeBSD.
Actually it is not especially trick for HTC Wildfire and solution will be the same for mounting another flash disks which are not mounting automatically.
Take a look at dmesg:
howtobsd# dmesg -a | tail ..... da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present

make next command to find out name of partition of our device (I hope you will try to mount in exist directory ):
howtobsd#mount /dev/da0 /mnt/flash mount: /dev/da0 : Invalid argument

Ignore this message and looking at /dev directory – there should appear new device:
howtobsd#ls -l /dev/da* crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 143 16 окт 17:57 /dev/da0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 144 16 окт 18:29 /dev/da0s1

And now we are ready to mount it:

mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/flash/

Done.

Setting up wireless on FreeBSD laptop

admin — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:40:42 +0000

Identify installed wi-fi adapter:

hostobsd#pciconf -lv |grep Wireless device = 'Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller (10208086)'

find device in Hardware Notes:

[i386, amd64] Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG MiniPCI network adapters ( wpi(4) driver)

So, wpi is driver for my wi-fi device.

Following the instruction wpi(4), going to configure the kernel with options:
device wpi
device wpifw
device pci
device wlan
device wlan_amrr
device firmware

You also can load driver without kernel configuring by adding in /boot/loader.conf
if_wpi_load=”YES”

add in /etc/rc.conf:
wlans_wpi0=wlan0
ifconfig_wlan0=”WPA DHCP”

create configuration file for our wireless connection :
howtobsd#touch /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf howtobsd#vim /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

and add there ssid and password(for WPA-PSK):
network={
ssid=”yourssid”
psk=”yourspass”
}

and finally reboot

Setting Up the Sound card on FreeBSD 8.1

admin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:18:26 +0000

The simplest way to setting up sound on FreeBSD to load universal kernel module kldload:
howtobsd# kldload snd_driver

snd_driver is driver, that include itself supporting the most popular sound card drivers.

But I think better to install kernel with support exactly yours sound card. For this way we have to identify device model:
slim# pciconf -lv | grep audio device = 'Intel audio controller embedded with the 82801H chipset ( ICH8 chipset ) (82801H)'

find this sound card in the Hardware Notes :

and make kernel with options:

device sound
device snd_hda

You also can load driver without configuring kernel. Add in /boot/loader.conf:
snd_hda_load=”YES”

FreeBSD 7.2 and Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATA Controller

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:11:53 +0000

Recently I have happened to set up some services on my brother’s fileserver.
FreeBSD should been worked via PCI SATA Controller(Sil3112)on SATA 1Tb HDD.
FreeBSD 7.2 was installing by a miracle. But it didn’t work properly.
Server was being hang up and restart when hard disk was being use actively (for example: updating ports tree,make installing port’s and especially uploading a big data level via samba).
As it found out this controller don’t work correctly with FreeBSD, although it present in The currently supported ATA/SATA controller chips