From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 16:30:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DF5106567D for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:30:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (mail-gw1.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726F18FC16 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:30:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw6.york.ac.uk (mail-gw6.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.26]) by mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m84GTvqU019932; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:29:57 +0100 (BST) Received: from buffy-128.york.ac.uk ([144.32.128.160] helo=buffy.york.ac.uk) by mail-gw6.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KbHiX-0000pw-7Q; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:29:57 +0100 Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m84GTu0Q095932; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:29:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m84GTuKB095931; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:29:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: Dan Allen In-Reply-To: References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> <20080903191454.GA15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:29:55 +0100 Message-Id: <1220545795.94705.15.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:30:15 -0000 On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:47 -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > Here is what lspci on Ubunut returns: > Slot: 09:00.0 > Class: Ethernet controller [0200] > Vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. [11ab] > Device: 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller [4354] > SVendor: Dell [1028] > SDevice: Unknown device [022f] > Rev: 12 This particular chip isn't supported in any version of FreeBSD at this moment. Patches do exist for it at http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.88E8040.patch but they haven't been integrated yet, presumably because it hasn't been sufficiently tested yet. > Slot: 0b:00.0 > Class: Network controller [0280] > Vendor: Intel Corporation [8086] > Device: PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection [4229] > SVendor: Intel Corporation [8086] > SDevice: Unknown device [1120] > Rev: 61 This is supported by the iwn(4) driver in CURRENT, and it should be quite easy to port the driver to 7-STABLE. If you're interested in reinstalling FreeBSD and testing a backported driver, I'm sure this can be sorted. Gavin