From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 10:41:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8E2106564A for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:41:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mail.gelita.se (212-162-182-244.skbbip.com [212.162.182.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A936A8FC32 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gelita.se (localhost.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DAFD10E77C; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:43:34 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at troback.com Received: from mail.gelita.se ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (mail.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id R95Gg7-TAtPV; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:43:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from bljbsd01.no-ip.org (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420EE10E50A; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:43:26 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B977752.9080204@eskk.nu> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:41:22 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100302 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikos Vassiliadis References: <4B976ED8.4090302@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <4B976ED8.4090302@gmx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: is there a native driver for 'Dell Wireless 1397'? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:41:33 -0000 On 2010-03-10 11:05, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested in buying a laptop from the > Dell Inspiron 15 series. Most of them are having > a wifi card branded as 'Dell Wireless 1397'. > Is there a driver for this? > > I would prefer a native driver, but success > stories using it with NDIS or other general > comments regarding the Dell Inspiron 15 series > are welcome. > > Thanks, Nikos > I bought a Dell Latitude 6500 two years ago. The Dell Wireless was not supported then by FreeBSD. I got an Intel card from Dell instead and the iwn driver works well. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8041 /Leslie