Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:07:15 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Alexey Koptsevich <alex@astro.su.se> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Combo NIC/Modem for Inspiron Message-ID: <XFMail.20010924000715.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10109231248030.10498-100000@dioscuri.astro.su.se>
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On 23-Sep-2001 Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > I am going to buy a Dell Inspiron 8100 notebook and hesitating on choice > of network card. They offer "10/100+56K Capable V.90 NIC/Modem, Internal > Mini-PCI" -- does anybody know what chip does its NIC part have and > whether it is supported by FreeBSD? Also, is this modem real or software > one? I have an Inspiron 8000 and the inbuilt part works fine. The ethernet side appears as an EEPro (fxp). The modem part is a soft-modem using the Lucent chipset. There are drivers available for the modem at http://www.geocities.com/wtnbkysh/ This setup has a problem though, it doesn't rebuild the module when you rebuild your kernel. I have a version at http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/ltmdm-driver.tgz which fixes this problem. BTW do you realise that the video chipset in the i8100 is not going to work with X properly? I beleieve someone has it working via VESA support but I suspect that is pretty slow. The GeForce2Go isn't supported in X4, apparently the linux only nvidia drivers work 'ok' :-/ --- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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