Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:41:46 -0700 From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell D800 and wireless ethernet card Message-ID: <20041013224146.GA29023@ack.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <416D9AFD.8090801@math.missouri.edu> References: <416D9AFD.8090801@math.missouri.edu>
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On Oct 13, "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" wrote: > 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. FYI I had this problem, but I was able to get around it by adding this to my /boot/loader.conf: machdep.disable_mtrrs="1" I have found it necessary to use the binary nvidia driver to get my D800 to export to an external monitor. > 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? I vaguely remember not being able to do what I wanted with wicontrol also. I tend to press FUNCTION-F2 to turn the card off to "disconnect" :) Mike
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