From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 21:16:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101021065670 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:16:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 999448FC13 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:16:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw6.york.ac.uk (mail-gw6.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.26]) by mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m83KjDbB013949; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:45:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from ury.york.ac.uk ([144.32.108.81]) by mail-gw6.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KazE1-0004J2-0t; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:45:13 +0100 Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (localhost.york.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m83KjC0i002421; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:45:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) with ESMTP id m83KjCni002418; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:45:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:45:12 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson X-X-Sender: gavin@ury.york.ac.uk To: Dan Allen In-Reply-To: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> Message-ID: <20080903211010.G57629@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:16:32 -0000 On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Dan Allen wrote: > Also, and I am sure I am not the only one with one of these, my new $500 Dell > Inspiron 1525 is not supported well by BSD RELENG_7: the Intel 4965 wireless > and the Marvell 88E80xx Ethernet are both NOT supported so I have a great new > laptop which cannot connect to the outside world with BSD. :-( Ubuntu > supports these and lots more. There is support for the Intel 4965 in HEAD, with the iwn(4) driver. I don't know how likely this is to be merged before 7.1, but I suspect if people test it and confirms that it works for them, it may be possible. As for the 88E80xx, it probably depends exaclty which chipset you are talking about. Several are already supported with the msk(4) driver, have you tried it? If that doesn't work, the output of "pciconf -l" will be necessary before there's any chance of helping. Gavn