Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:40:56 +0200 From: Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8500 Message-ID: <20030425144056.GA8542@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <200304202318.20956.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200304202318.20956.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Le 2003-04-20, Daniel O'Connor écrivait :
> Anyone run FreeBSD on such a beast?
Just received one today. The builtin WiFi adapter is still a Broadcom
chip for which there is no known open-source driver, and worse, the
builtin 100BT is now *also* a damned Broadcom thingy (BCM4401), for
which there is a Linux driver but no FreeBSD driver (and as someone else
recently noted, just adding a new chip ID to if_bge.c results in a nice,
immediate panic).
What was so wrong with the good ol' 3Com chips they had in
Inspiron 8200? :(
Thomas.
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Thomas.Quinot@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG
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