From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 14:05:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9911116A41F for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:05:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wwitzke@sstire.com) Received: from set.sstire.com (set.sstire.com [209.194.98.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F6243D48 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:05:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wwitzke@sstire.com) Received: from [10.10.10.128] [209.194.98.2] by set.sstire.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.03) id AC16189C00D4; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:15:50 -0400 Message-ID: <434E69BE.5040707@sstire.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:05:50 -0400 From: Wayne Witzke User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20051001) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Middaugh References: <0IO900AJX6ER8K@revere.dol.state.nj.us> In-Reply-To: <0IO900AJX6ER8K@revere.dol.state.nj.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 on a Dell D800 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:05:52 -0000 Bob Middaugh wrote: > On Behalf Of Wayne Witzke > >>Ugo Bellavance wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>> I tried installing 5.4 on my Dell D800 laptop. After the > > first > >>>boot, my keyboard stopped working. I don't know what to do >> >>from now >> >>>or if it is even worth the effort. Should I try 6.0RC? >> >>I have 5.4 installed on a 2 year old Dell D800 laptop and so >>far everything works perfectly except for my CDROM (which I'm >>beginning to think is failing anyway). >> > > Hi Wayne, can you post your kernel config file, or tell us what > devices you're using for sound and the wireless nic? My wireless nic > is an Intel 2200BG, I don't know if they're the same for all D800's, > mine is only about a year old. Thanks, > Bob Well, my wireless nic is a DELL TrueMobile 1300 (it's a rebranded Broadcom card, I think), and the audio is a SigmaTel STAC9750/51 AC97 Codec. At least, that's what dmesg is telling me about my sound card, and since I'm listening to music right now I can only assume it's right. In order to get the audio working, I had to add the following line to /boot/loader.conf: snd_ich_load="YES" My wireless nic is an 802.11b/g card, and in order to get it to work, I had to go the Project Evil route. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html That gets the device up and running, but you also have to figure out what your ssid is and set that using ifconfig for ndis0. But, heh, but doing a quick search to find out where to specify ssid in configuration options to make it pick that up automatically on boot, I ran across this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html I get the impression that you might want to try this first. It looks like it might be a bit more specific to your hardware. Hope this helps! Wayne