From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 1 21:08:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8325E16A415 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:08:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@www.kukulies.org) Received: from www.kukulies.org (www.kukulies.org [213.146.112.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA9813C455 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:08:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@www.kukulies.org) Received: from www.kukulies.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.kukulies.org (8.13.3/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l01L86gk051997; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 22:08:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kuku@www.kukulies.org) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by www.kukulies.org (8.13.3/8.12.10/Submit) id l01L84TY051869; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 22:08:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kuku) Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 22:08:04 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070101210804.GA49016@kukulies.org> References: <200701011828.l01IShTg085467@www.kukulies.org> <20070101184537.GA18024@sysmon.tcworks.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070101184537.GA18024@sysmon.tcworks.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Cc: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: DELL Intel PRO Wireless 3945 ABG X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:08:12 -0000 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