Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:24:01 -0400 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell laptops Message-ID: <17589.15937.473805.148588@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607111252150.24473@sea.ntplx.net> References: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607111252150.24473@sea.ntplx.net>
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>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes: Daniel> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> What are the current problems, if any, on current Dell laptops have >> with FreeBSD? Daniel> Yeah, thanks for asking! My Inspiron E1405 came with an Intel Daniel> 3945 A/B/G mini-PCI wireless that isn't supported (OpenBSD has Daniel> a seemingly actively maintained wpi driver for this card, and Daniel> I have an experimental FreeBSD driver from damien that I Daniel> haven't yet been able to get to work). I've ordered an Daniel> Atheros-based mini-PCI in the meantime, and can lend out the Daniel> 3945 to anyone willing to work on it. Daniel> Also, the Fn (the blue key) can't be used to suspend, control Daniel> volume, switch CRT/LCD, etc, and most importantly enable the Daniel> radio on the wireless card (Fn + F2). Even if the wpi driver Daniel> works, it's worthless if I can't enable the radio. My XPS-170 came with a 2915 a/b/g, and the iwi driver works fine. The function key switch also works --- but it's operation is somewhat acpi-related, I believe. The screen switching function stopped working for me with the latest update to the nvidia driver (try it on the console --- if it works there, it's the nvidia driver). Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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