Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:45:36 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP dv5140us Message-ID: <447206D0.6080806@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4471AC5C.30309@centtech.com> References: <20060522.004013.41690205.imp@bsdimp.com> <4471AC5C.30309@centtech.com>
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Eric Anderson wrote: > Warner Losh wrote: >> OK. I decided that I wanted to try the amd64 laptops with cardbus, >> express card and SD slot. And I wanted to buy it from the shops >> locally on saturday. This means I went with a big, and kinda bulky >> laptop from HP the dv5140us. It was a bunch cheaper than the lifebook >> I was looking at, and didn't have a two week lead time for the model >> that I wanted. Maybe I'll get one of them next year :-) >> >> Alas, FreeBSD doesn't perfectly support this laptop. I got lucky with >> X, since the ATI part that in here just worked. The wireless card and >> the sound card appear to not have drivers. I was wondering what my >> options were for them: >> >> none4@pci6:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1358103c chip=0x431914e4 >> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 >> vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' >> class = network >> >> (I'm guessing I'll have to do ndis for this one) > > > You could replace it with a atheros based mini pci-express card. Works > fine. Search ebay for "atheros express". I'm using one, and it's > working great. > > Eric I should say that when I claim I'm using one, I mean on my laptop, which isn't an HP, but uses mini pci express, and an atheros mini pci express card which was swapped with a broadcom that came in it. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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