Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:15:17 +0000 From: "John ." <comp.john@googlemail.com> To: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to make a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300 work with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT (2008.11) Message-ID: <abc784790811230415x65da2a9kae59641686617d95@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0811221639s3f60fea5n80b7b76321c766a6@mail.gmail.com> References: <abc784790811221521s444a88c2m28f3fa293f603fad@mail.gmail.com> <7d6fde3d0811221639s3f60fea5n80b7b76321c766a6@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi 2008/11/23 Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>: > As for the wireless driver, could you forward with more details about > your laptop, like the spec sheet, perhaps? We'll need the model type > for the laptop at least so we can find out the required specs (Toshiba > releases various revisions of each model with different specs). If it;s any help the kern.log shows the following under ubuntu (but I really want freebsd ;)) - it is still non-working under ubuntu. [from kern.log] Nov 22 17:10:59 ubuntu kernel: [ 105.708047] rtl8187: Invalid hwaddr! Using randomly generated MAC address Nov 22 17:10:59 ubuntu kernel: [ 214.908048] rtl8187: 8187B chip detected. Support is EXPERIMENTAL, and could damage your Nov 22 17:10:59 ubuntu kernel: [ 214.908050] hardware, use at your own risk Nov 22 17:10:59 ubuntu kernel: [ 214.909768] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' Nov 22 17:10:59 ubuntu kernel: [ 218.447469] phy0: hwaddr 6e:72:7b:10:73:c6, RTL8187BvB V1 + rtl8225z2 Nov 22 17:10:59 ubuntu kernel: [ 218.447515] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187 [/kern.log] Latest updates of stuff I've tried and comments are on http://www.growveg.org/laptop/ thanks -- John
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