From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 13:10:14 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 831C7106564A for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:10:14 +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 414558FC0C for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:10:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gelita.se (localhost.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42E5010E77C; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:12:17 +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 y-kEO7TICHyj; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:12:12 +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 F1EC810E50A; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:12:11 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B979A2F.6060007@eskk.nu> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:10:07 +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> <4B977752.9080204@eskk.nu> <4B97832A.4000007@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <4B97832A.4000007@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 13:10:14 -0000 On 2010-03-10 12:31, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On 3/10/2010 12:41 PM, Leslie Jensen wrote: >> 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 > > I guess you have not looked back to 'Dell Wireless 1397' > with a recent FreeBSD? > > _______________________________________________ No! I think you can alter the configuration of the pc before you buy it. So the cost should not be so big. I think I payed about 20$ extra for the Intel card. /Leslie