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Subject: Re: Working mini PCIe wireless?
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On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Geoff Buckingham wrote:
> I recently purchased the Dell I6400 Ubuntu laptop, with the express
> intent of running FreeBSD on it.
>
> My intention was to use this a working machine using PC-BSD, I.E.
> RELENG_6, limiting tinkering, experimentation to other systems.
>
> It comes with an Intel 3945[1] mini PCIe card, which I knew would
> not work. So I ordered myself a Azurewave Atheros based mini PCIe
> card to replace it. Unfortunatly the ath_hal[2] doesn't recognise
> the hardware revision, so that doesn't work either.
>
> Does anybody know of a mini PCIe wireless card that works under
> RELENG_6? Failing that an ExpressCard? (The 6400 has no Card Bus)
>
> Notes:
>
> [1]I know there is a 3945 driver for 7 and an older rev fo 6, I
> tried it it locks up the machine.
> [2] Sam has a more recent HAL on his "people" page, but the headers
> have changed making it non-trivial, for me at least, to compile
> into a RELENG_6 kernel/module.
>
The Dell 1490 card works with NDIS.  The go for less than $20 on ebay.