From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Sep 23 7:39: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48FA837B40A for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 07:38:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA02643; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:07:25 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:07:15 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Alexey Koptsevich Subject: RE: Combo NIC/Modem for Inspiron Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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