From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 05:28:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCC416A4CE; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 05:28:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC0943D3F; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 05:28:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [192.168.214.216] (c-24-1-210-118.client.comcast.net[24.1.210.118]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2005010605280901500n65e2e>; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 05:28:10 +0000 Message-ID: <41DCCC60.7060309@computer.org> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:28:00 -0600 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041228) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey , FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD mobile Mailing List References: <20050105062243.GO53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> <41DC21DF.30801@computer.org> <20050106004037.GA53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050106004037.GA53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 05:28:15 -0000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 11:20:31 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: > >>Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >>>I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number >>>of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. >>>Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me >>>good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal >>>wireless card to work? >> >>My point is... you may have to use the windows drivers with a wrapper to >>get it to work. > > > Yes, that was my suspicion as well, and one of the reasons for my > question. > > >>On the other hand... I've switched to an Atheros based miniPCI card >>which works quite well with 'device ath'. I can give you a link if >>your interested. > > > Thanks, but no. I have wireless cards here. I was wondering about > the onboard card. I was referring to the internal onboard (miniPCI) card. You could purchase the laptop without one (if that's an option) and then drop in your own. I chose an Atheros based one... but there are Prism based ones floating around as well. > > >>So you might dig around and try to find out positively whose card >>those miniPCI devices are. > > > That's what I'm trying to do, and also (if possible) get more details > about how to get them running. I can give you very specific instruction on how I got the 1300 (Broadcom) working with 5.2.1... but I don't think thats what your after. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -- Regards, Eric