From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 15 12:29:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 C84F216A4DD for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:29:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E84343D53 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:28:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G1jGR-0001p5-9r for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:28:55 +0200 Received: from r5k20.chello.upc.cz ([86.49.10.20]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:28:55 +0200 Received: from martinkov by r5k20.chello.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:28:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:28:50 +0200 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <44B8DF82.40904@pobox.sk> References: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> <200607111338.01412.mistry.7@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5k20.chello.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060605 SeaMonkey/1.0.2 In-Reply-To: <200607111338.01412.mistry.7@osu.edu> Sender: news Subject: Re: Dell laptops X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:29:00 -0000 Anish Mistry wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 13:10, Daniel Eischen wrote: >> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> What are the current problems, if any, on current Dell laptops >>> have with FreeBSD? >> Yeah, thanks for asking! My Inspiron E1405 came with an Intel >> 3945 A/B/G mini-PCI wireless that isn't supported (OpenBSD has >> a seemingly actively maintained wpi driver for this card, and >> I have an experimental FreeBSD driver from damien that I haven't >> yet been able to get to work). I've ordered an Atheros-based >> mini-PCI in the meantime, and can lend out the 3945 to anyone >> willing to work on it. >> >> Also, the Fn (the blue key) can't be used to suspend, control >> volume, switch CRT/LCD, etc, and most importantly enable the >> radio on the wireless card (Fn + F2). Even if the wpi driver >> works, it's worthless if I can't enable the radio. > It might simply need an acpi function keys driver for your system. > Would you post an "acpidump -dt" from your system? > anish, please how can i find if the function keys are supported on hw i'm using ? m.