Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:17:15 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware Message-ID: <e71790db0809041217u50d6f2a1xc15d7623b5f6704a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48C02768.1080207@math.missouri.edu> References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> <20080903191454.GA15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <E7F933AF-2D8A-462C-A44B-A140BB88C3DD@airwired.net> <1220545795.94705.15.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <49B92D81-74EC-4BAB-BEEC-EC4DCFF5E336@airwired.net> <1220550536.94705.18.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <48C02768.1080207@math.missouri.edu>
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On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> wrote: > Gavin Atkinson wrote: >> >> 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. > > I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 with the intel wireless ethernet. > > The iwn driver in CURRENT works well. > > The http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.88E8040.patch patch for the > 88E8040 simply doesn't work. It is not because of lack of testing (which I > have performed for Pyun who wrote the patch), but apparently because of lack > of reliable documentation. There is a driver for FreeBSD on the Marvell web > site, which did work for me, but I am told it is unreliable. > > I also have had a hard time getting the sound to work. The oss port does > work, but has a habit of freezing up. Did you try using Alexander Motin's new snd_hda patches? They are available at http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/ -- cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life make clean
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