Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:36:39 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell laptops Message-ID: <200607122136.54293.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607112352430.27869@sea.ntplx.net> References: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> <200607111338.01412.mistry.7@osu.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607112352430.27869@sea.ntplx.net>
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--nextPart2273770.ah4prTgvHB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 11 July 2006 23:54, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Anish Mistry wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 13:10, Daniel Eischen wrote: > >> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote: > >>> Greetings, > >>> > >>> What are the current problems, if any, on current Dell laptops > >>> have with FreeBSD? > >> > >> Yeah, thanks for asking! My Inspiron E1405 came with an Intel > >> 3945 A/B/G mini-PCI wireless that isn't supported (OpenBSD has > >> a seemingly actively maintained wpi driver for this card, and > >> I have an experimental FreeBSD driver from damien that I haven't > >> yet been able to get to work). I've ordered an Atheros-based > >> mini-PCI in the meantime, and can lend out the 3945 to anyone > >> willing to work on it. > >> > >> Also, the Fn (the blue key) can't be used to suspend, control > >> volume, switch CRT/LCD, etc, and most importantly enable the > >> radio on the wireless card (Fn + F2). Even if the wpi driver > >> works, it's worthless if I can't enable the radio. > > > > It might simply need an acpi function keys driver for your > > system. Would you post an "acpidump -dt" from your system? > > Here it is: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/e1405.acpi.dump > > I don't know how to decipher it nor what to do with it. There doesn't seem to be a function key device. This probably means=20 that pressing the keys just generate keyboard scan codes. Does acpi_video work for you? It looks like it should work. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart2273770.ah4prTgvHB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEtaO2xqA5ziudZT0RAkNQAKDdzOQXo/53EbtPy3KhogfKtJQZ4gCfTIE+ CzaMuCfx1XabKWlVIKH8CYw= =humi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2273770.ah4prTgvHB--
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