Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:47:12 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experience with Dell Latitude D620? Message-ID: <20061026154712.922C24506A@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:28:26 EDT." <Pine.GSO.4.64.0610260827390.11671@sea.ntplx.net>
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--==_Exmh_1161877632_68145P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:28:26 -0400 (EDT) > From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Doug Barton wrote: > > > > At that point I kind of gave up and decided to do what I could as a user to > > help get the 3945 working, since it's almost impossible to buy a laptop > > nowadays without one of those. But since no one is really interested in > > making that card work atm, I think I'm going to give Eric's colleague a buzz. > > :) > > FYI, OpenBSD has a driver for it and it seems to be actively maintained > by Damien. Last I heard, though, we that Damien was no longer working on FreeBSD support. It sounded like someone on the FreeBSD side annoyed him and he just said no more. (That happens too often, although I don't know what happened in this case. Some computer folks seem to have the social skills of a rhinoceros.) OTOH, I did see a message from Damien in the past couple of days. Hopefully, tempers are cooling. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1161877632_68145P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFFQNiAkn3rs5h7N1ERArZXAJ98mWZImNPAGBMELCTcjqtK7wTj1gCfZBLh GhdNp1T4zXAujlYTAUbyfNI= =9ZJv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1161877632_68145P--
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