From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 12:15:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587171065674 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:15:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from comp.john@googlemail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC6728FC0A for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:15:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from comp.john@googlemail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i2so1760590mue.3 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:15:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=OQY2xS9sPXsUu2zwLtcVLQ3TX8Uk3x7Jt7wUy4uLM2Y=; b=gMYOhr//yt98d4Y2l6NEUB684/KhJ3g5q+ZBFh9timJ9zEQpdbH85KxLmTxW7xPSUu yiNCUKyx1bmyfECcAjUjpTfjwVKGQ20rWwbcCyD2gDLr9Q9VOYWfnts7G8vfkeum7Tx4 NEuxeJN8uIhQ7XHMFaNsTPEwreDF91+rzgrYs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=XhK6Kh3DtkvZXGR5AgCMBHPrnylfdC1MpnReCVPrb97+15lrnPwyVBsNLouVIBePd0 O8yhpwR7B90edmBg8ERqLQiAkl5ODhIkTkMGt1MZFG64jUuVYxeJ2x0KV2X4Boo4+Q3n Lw4LaY1f1GpE10lYSEzUjqbouItHVX6Ff4CfU= Received: by 10.103.11.7 with SMTP id o7mr723501mui.103.1227442517269; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:15:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.224.20 with HTTP; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:15:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:15:17 +0000 From: "John ." To: "Garrett Cooper" In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0811221639s3f60fea5n80b7b76321c766a6@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d6fde3d0811221639s3f60fea5n80b7b76321c766a6@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to make a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300 work with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT (2008.11) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:15:20 -0000 Hi 2008/11/23 Garrett Cooper : > 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