From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 21:15:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1834416A4CE for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:15:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91.asp.att.net [204.127.203.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3E343D1F for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:15:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from [10.0.0.4] (12-216-240-169.client.mchsi.com[12.216.240.169]) by sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91) with ESMTP id <20041013211542m9100cengue>; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:15:42 +0000 Message-ID: <416D9AFD.8090801@math.missouri.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:15:41 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Dell D800 and wireless ethernet card X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:15:43 -0000 I just got myself a Dell D800 laptop. Really it is woking rather well - one of the hard parts was the video card, because the nvidia driver would just cause the computer to completely freeze. But googling "Linux 1680x1050" gave me some appropriate ModeLine so that the nv driver now works. But I digress. This laptop comes with a Dell WLAN 1350 wireless ethernet card. I was able to get a driver by using the Windows driver with ndis, and this does indeed work. (I did have to surpress -Werror in compiling the kernel.) My problem is how to control this ethernet card. For example, the wi dirver comes with wicontrol. In particular, I did get the ethernet card to connect to a wireless hub (indeed dhclient ndis0 succeeded admirably). But I couldn't figure out how to disconnect the ethernet card without rebooting the computer. Perhaps ndis is still in its early development, and I just need to wait for a "ndiscontrol" function or such like to come along. Or is there some other way? Thanks, Stephen