I finally brought a wifi dongle. It worked. Then I realize that there are other devices that are not configured/recognized by the system. My first clue was that audio in youtube and later in cmus hang up if I change the output volumen. Well, maybe it's a too recent laptop for the OS. Gotta see how I resolve that.
Thanks for help! Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ El 22 de agosto de 2018 4:19 AM, Solene Rapenne <[email protected]> escribió: > "Lic. Cardozo" [email protected] wrote: > > > Hello y'all. > > A totally newbie and non english speaker here. > > My case is simple. Today I receive my new computer, a DELL Inspiron 7000 > > 2-in-1, with AMD Ryzen 7, etc. > > It came with Windows 10, and there everything worked fine. But I want to > > start the *nix experience, > > so I installed openBSD 6.3 -that was easy-, and when I tried to configure > > de wireless device, I just can't. > > I read the ifconfig man pages, internet forums, I even did research in that > > subject in the previous weeks, > > 'cause I know that the wireless connection was difficult to set in some > > models. > > Right now, I tried everything I can think about. > > -I can't connect with a RJ45, because that doesn't come with my machine. > > -I put all the firmware from the openBSD repository in an USB stick and > > plugged it into the laptop > > -I mounted /dev/sd1i /mnt > > -I executed dmesg, and read that my wireless card was an Atheros... > > -I ran " fw_update -p /mnt ". Just like that or specifing the name of the > > Atheros firmware. > > -Since that doesn't work, I extracted and copied manually the content of > > the .tgz to /etc/firmware. > > -And no matter how many times I did it, and how many times I reboot, when I > > run "if config", I don't seem > > to see the proper device recognized by the system. > > Any idea, 'cause I don't know what else can I do. > > vendor "Atheros", unknown product 0x0042 (class network subclass > > miscellaneous, rev 0x31) at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured > > Hello > > Your wifi card is not configured, that's why it doesn't show up in > ifconfig output. Except writing the missing driver there is nothing you > can do here. You can still buy a cheap ~10€ usb wifi card or an > usb->ethernet adapter.
