Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:44:09 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Cc: "John ." <comp.john@googlemail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to make a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300 work with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT (2008.11) Message-ID: <20081124024409.GG78954@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0811221639s3f60fea5n80b7b76321c766a6@mail.gmail.com> References: <abc784790811221521s444a88c2m28f3fa293f603fad@mail.gmail.com> <7d6fde3d0811221639s3f60fea5n80b7b76321c766a6@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 04:39:52PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:21 PM, John . <comp.john@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Toshiba A300 Satellite Pro PSAK13 (AMD Turion 64) > > > > It works for the most part, except for wifi or ethernet :( > > > > X not tested unfer FreeBSD > > > > dmesg at http://www.growveg.org/laptop/freebsd/fbsd8_current_200811_dmesg.txt > > pciconf at http://www.growveg.org/laptop/freebsd/fbsd8_current_200811_pciconf.txt > > > > Can anyone tell me if there is a chance getting the onboard wifi to work? > > > > Linux (latest ubuntu 64 bit) doesn't see it either (though it does > > detect ethernet) > > > > thanks > > -- > > John > > Looks like the ethernet chipset might be another PCI ID not covered by msk(4). > > none3@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xff501179 chip=0x436c11ab > rev=0x16 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > cap 01[48] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D1 D2 D3 current D0 > cap 05[5c] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit > cap 10[c0] = PCI-Express 2 legacy endpoint > > I CC'ed Pyun, but I'm not sure that anything can be done because this > is a PCI-e based driver *shrugs*. > It looks like 88E8072(Yukon Extreme). It's not supported yet and it requires more code to support newer Tx descriptor format as well as new workaround for this controller. I don't have these hardwares and it's somewhat hard to write a patch without accessing hardware. > As for the wireless driver, could you forward with more details about > your laptop, like the spec sheet, perhaps? We'll need the model type > for the laptop at least so we can find out the required specs (Toshiba > releases various revisions of each model with different specs). > > You won't get 64-bit X11 support with hardware acceleration because > neither nVidia or ATI has a working 64-bit driver due to vmem related > reasons. > > -Garrett -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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