From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 11 17:37:38 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 DAA8D16A4DD; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:37:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from mail.united-ware.com (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F0443D5A; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:37:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.united-ware.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6BHi7p7022280 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:44:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) From: Anish Mistry To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Daniel Eischen Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:37:51 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3911821.ClsKTBoZ87"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200607111338.01412.mistry.7@osu.edu> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_60, MYFREEBSD2 autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.2/1591/Mon Jul 10 15:41:02 2006 on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: 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: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:37:38 -0000 --nextPart3911821.ClsKTBoZ87 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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. =20 Would you post an "acpidump -dt" from your system? =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart3911821.ClsKTBoZ87 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEs+H5xqA5ziudZT0RAuPNAJ9mYaops7UfYYqKp/Y3aw1IvMkQ1gCdFolQ fBQuppl9Jw+fV/zVubRLdAM= =ELey -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3911821.ClsKTBoZ87--