Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 11:40:51 -0600 From: David Booth <davidb@boothscientific.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Working mini PCIe wireless? Message-ID: <200712041140.51541.davidb@boothscientific.com> In-Reply-To: <20071204155529.GA98779@chuggalug.clues.com> References: <20071204155529.GA98779@chuggalug.clues.com>
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On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Geoff Buckingham wrote: > I recently purchased the Dell I6400 Ubuntu laptop, with the express > intent of running FreeBSD on it. > > My intention was to use this a working machine using PC-BSD, I.E. > RELENG_6, limiting tinkering, experimentation to other systems. > > It comes with an Intel 3945[1] mini PCIe card, which I knew would > not work. So I ordered myself a Azurewave Atheros based mini PCIe > card to replace it. Unfortunatly the ath_hal[2] doesn't recognise > the hardware revision, so that doesn't work either. > > Does anybody know of a mini PCIe wireless card that works under > RELENG_6? Failing that an ExpressCard? (The 6400 has no Card Bus) > > Notes: > > [1]I know there is a 3945 driver for 7 and an older rev fo 6, I > tried it it locks up the machine. > [2] Sam has a more recent HAL on his "people" page, but the headers > have changed making it non-trivial, for me at least, to compile > into a RELENG_6 kernel/module. > The Dell 1490 card works with NDIS. The go for less than $20 on ebay.
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