Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 14:22:53 +0200 From: Clement Twine <clem.twain@gmail.com> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5.3 on latitude d600? Message-ID: <42761B9D.6070500@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050502082417.GA42487@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <4273675C.1090400@gmail.com> <20050430122748.GC16298@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <42737CEF.8060304@gmail.com> <20050502082417.GA42487@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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Stijn Hoop wrote the following on 05/02/2005 10:24 AM: >>>> has anyone installed freebsd 5.3 on a dell latitude d600? >>>> have the following worked "out-of-the-box"? >>>> >>>> WiFi: Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter >>> >>> Not out of the box but there's a driver in -CURRENT for it: >>> iwi(4). There is a version for 5.3 on Damien Bergamini's >>> website afaik (google for it). >> >> ok, but this laptop is like - 3 years old? anyway, i'll look >> there. > > This is due to a lot of circumstance, most of it political: > > - at first every wireless vendor refused to release programming > information, except for a select few. - now, although the > programming information is out in the open, Intel refuses to > release the needed firmware for the chipset under a license that > is compatible for open source projects to include it > > these two facts do not help regular driver development. In fact, > the original author of the BSD drivers for Intel wireless chips > is also the primary author of the cooperative Ralink Technology > chipset driver; given a choice it would be wise to choose a > wireless adapter with that chipset over the Intel ones. > > Anyway you don't really have a choice, just explaining why things > are as they are. you are right here actually. But thanks for the info. Question is - these drivers exist for Linux, is it not the same programming information from Intel that was used to develop the Linux drivers? >> My major concern is suspend to RAM. I use FreeBSD, but not on >> my laptop so far. Looks like i have to wait a while for the >> ACPI to fully 'mature' on freeBSD ;) I *hate* having to >> shutdown my laptoy :) > > Just try it out. 5.4 has a lot of improvements and I haven't > tried suspend in a few releases so maybe you're in for a nice > surprise. This could be something to try anyway. Problem is that my laptop's BIOS does not support APM - which am sure could have worked well. Clem
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