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Date:      Fri, 5 Sep 2008 14:34:55 +0900
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@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:  <20080905053455.GD65464@cdnetworks.co.kr>
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 04, 2008 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith 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 

Another problem is lack of hardware. 88E8040 seems to be intialized
after applying the patch but link establishment seem to fail. :-(

 > 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.

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon



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