From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 17:37:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD91B16A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:37:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF78043FDF for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:37:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06FAF2BD0F for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:37:39 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 265F2511FC; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:07:37 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:07:37 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: pirat Message-ID: <20031120013737.GF22360@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20031119105914.GA20096@thai-aec.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HCdXmnRlPgeNBad2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031119105914.GA20096@thai-aec.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 1100 and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 01:37:42 -0000 --HCdXmnRlPgeNBad2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraph. On Wednesday, 19 November 2003 at 17:59:14 +0700, pirat wrote: > hi sirs, > > i have one notebook from dell, inspiron 1100. i would like to know > if this notebook can be used with freebsd or not. it has on board > broadcom nic. but the current os - linux TLE - does not `see' it > also. This is pretty much the same as the Inspiron 5100 I have. The onboard NIC is supported in stable, but I had some problems starting X: the BIOS wasn't completely mapped, and I had to compile it in to the server. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jul2003.html#25 for more details. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --HCdXmnRlPgeNBad2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/vBrhIubykFB6QiMRAjObAJ94majUE2NdCsbdqU5/cPzegzdCYwCeP8cc 5cklhJVx+nhdlDyJwcxeG7s= =Jo+m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HCdXmnRlPgeNBad2--