From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 11 17:52:26 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 2EC3416A4E0 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:52:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deischen@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.ntplx.net (mail.ntplx.net [204.213.176.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBD9343D45 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:52:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deischen@freebsd.org) Received: from sea.ntplx.net (sea.ntplx.net [204.213.176.11]) by mail.ntplx.net (8.13.7/8.13.7/NETPLEX) with ESMTP id k6BHqNM6028312; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:52:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:52:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen X-X-Sender: eischen@sea.ntplx.net To: Anish Mistry In-Reply-To: <200607111338.01412.mistry.7@osu.edu> Message-ID: References: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> <200607111338.01412.mistry.7@osu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS and Clam AntiVirus (mail.ntplx.net) Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell laptops X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Eischen List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:52:26 -0000 On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, 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? I'll do that later when I get access to it, but I did try disabling ACPI and it still didn't work. Would that make a difference? -- DE