From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 13:43:00 2003 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 14A7616A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:43:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from sizone.org (mortar.sizone.org [65.126.154.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70EC943FAF for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:42:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by sizone.org (Postfix, from userid 66) id A532F3071C; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:42:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id 699AC1D2335; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:43:03 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16323.52455.33658.703815@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:43:03 -0500 To: Jamie Bowden In-Reply-To: <20031125092614.X26361-100000@moo.sysabend.org> References: <20031125092614.X26361-100000@moo.sysabend.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Latitude D800 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: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:43:00 -0000 >>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie Bowden writes: Jamie> I just got upgraded to a Latitude D800, and have installed Jamie> FreeBSD 5.1-R on it. The onboard NIC is a Broadcom 570x based Jamie> adapter but it is currently unrecognized by the bge driver. Jamie> I was planning on just adding the PCI ID to the driver and Jamie> recompiling the kernel, but before I did this, I just wanted to Jamie> know if anyone else has done this and if they were successful. Jamie> If no one else has done this yet, and I do this and it works, Jamie> where's the best place to submit the PCI ID so it gets included Jamie> into the driver for future generations? 2 things: 1) upgrade to current (bge supports your card ... and it's not 100% trivial) 2) join dell-d800@eicat.ca ... we've been working on the problems. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================