From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 17:49:12 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 365C7106567C for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:49:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90058FC12 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:49:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw6.york.ac.uk (mail-gw6.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.26]) by mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m84Hmwl0022044; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:48:58 +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 1KbIx0-0001oB-Ga; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:48:58 +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 m84Hmvmm096359; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:48:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m84Hmv4Z096358; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:48:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: Dan Allen In-Reply-To: <49B92D81-74EC-4BAB-BEEC-EC4DCFF5E336@airwired.net> References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> <20080903191454.GA15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <1220545795.94705.15.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <49B92D81-74EC-4BAB-BEEC-EC4DCFF5E336@airwired.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:48:56 +0100 Message-Id: <1220550536.94705.18.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@freebsd.org 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 17:49:12 -0000 On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > > 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. > > I am interested in doing this. Please advise on how I can get these > bits. I've got hold of a laptop with the 4965 chipset in it, if nobody beats me to it I'll have a go at backporting the driver. Gavin