Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:51:23 +0200 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8500 Message-ID: <200304251651.23535.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030425144056.GA8542@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> References: <200304202318.20956.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20030425144056.GA8542@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:40, Thomas Quinot wrote: > Just received one today. The builtin WiFi adapter is still a Broadcom > chip for which there is no known open-source driver, and worse, the > builtin 100BT is now *also* a damned Broadcom thingy (BCM4401), for > which there is a Linux driver but no FreeBSD driver (and as someone else > recently noted, just adding a new chip ID to if_bge.c results in a nice, > immediate panic). Bummer :( I don't really care about the wireless doodad but the ethernet is pretty important. Is the Linux driver open source? > What was so wrong with the good ol' 3Com chips they had in > Inspiron 8200? :( I like the fxp in my 8000 :) Thanks for your email! BTW what video chipset did you get, and how difficult was it to get X running? And, have you tried any PCMCIA cards in it? (Just trying to determine whether the usual fiddly things will work :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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