From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 07:40:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D3D37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org (melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org [62.212.105.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7E143F75 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:40:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: by melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A638C2C3D1; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:40:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:40:56 +0200 From: Thomas Quinot To: Daniel O'Connor Message-ID: <20030425144056.GA8542@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> References: <200304202318.20956.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200304202318.20956.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: WARNING! Using Outlook can damage your computer. cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Thomas Quinot List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:40:59 -0000 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. -- Thomas.Quinot@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG