Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 22:08:04 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@www.kukulies.org> Subject: Re: DELL Intel PRO Wireless 3945 ABG Message-ID: <20070101210804.GA49016@kukulies.org> In-Reply-To: <20070101184537.GA18024@sysmon.tcworks.net> References: <200701011828.l01IShTg085467@www.kukulies.org> <20070101184537.GA18024@sysmon.tcworks.net>
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On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:45:37PM -0600, Scott Lambert wrote: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 07:28:43PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > Does FreeBSD-mobile still live? I saw little posts in the recent past. > > Any chance to get FreeBSD working on my Dell Inspiron 9400 with > > an Intel PRO Wireless 3945 ABG adapter? > > Yes, it lives. Lots of people have found non-computer things to do on > New Year's Day. > > My impression, and experience, is that you can get just about any > network interface working with FreeBSD. If the FreeBSD drivers don't > support your particular card, investigate the NDIS driver which loads > the Windows network device driver via a compatibility layer. It worked > great on my old Compaq Presario's Broadcom wireless part in 5.x. > > man ndis > man ndiscvt > > I haven't used the NDIS driver since FreeBSD 5.2. Some of the steps > involved have probably changed and I've forgotten a lot of the details. > You do not have to recompile your kernel. It's not tough. Thanks. I lost the other response where the iwi driver found mention. So I'm replying here. kldstat kernel if_iwi.ko firmware.ko acpi.ko I see no interface to configure. There doesn't seem to be a device iwi0 or wi0. I'd prefer to use a native driver. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org
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