From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 05:54:24 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 DE3D11065689 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 05:54:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEFDC8FC16 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 05:54:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.43]) by QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Atr01a0030vp7WLA6tuQ1t; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:54:24 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.253.227]) by OMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id AtuP1a0084v8bD78RtuPjd; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:54:24 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=sQM06OpVnxRbdgVt5HIA:9 a=WzC_R-x_wtyHAUq9Co5B5MCw8yIA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6483217B81A; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 22:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 22:54:23 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Pyun YongHyeon Message-ID: <20080905055423.GA37775@icarus.home.lan> 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> <1220550536.94705.18.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <48C02768.1080207@math.missouri.edu> <20080905053455.GD65464@cdnetworks.co.kr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080905053455.GD65464@cdnetworks.co.kr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Gavin Atkinson , Peter Jeremy , Dan Allen , 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: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:54:24 -0000 On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > 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. :-( Yong-Hyeon, I can purchase and send you a Marvel 88E8040 NIC, assuming we can find a PCI or PCIe card somewhere that uses one. Otherwise, I could purchase a motherboard which uses the IC and send that to you. Let me know if this would be of any help! -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |