Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:22:32 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@freebsd.org> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware Message-ID: <48C02768.1080207@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <1220550536.94705.18.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> <20080903191454.GA15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <E7F933AF-2D8A-462C-A44B-A140BB88C3DD@airwired.net> <1220545795.94705.15.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <49B92D81-74EC-4BAB-BEEC-EC4DCFF5E336@airwired.net> <1220550536.94705.18.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Allen wrote: >> On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote: >> >>> This is supported by the iwn(4) driver in CURRENT, and it should be >>> quite easy to port the driver to 7-STABLE. If you're interested in >>> reinstalling FreeBSD and testing a backported driver, I'm sure this >>> can be sorted. >> I am interested in doing this. Please advise on how I can get these >> bits. > > I've got hold of a laptop with the 4965 chipset in it, if nobody beats > me to it I'll have a go at backporting the driver. I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 with the intel wireless ethernet. The iwn driver in CURRENT works well. The http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.88E8040.patch patch for the 88E8040 simply doesn't work. It is not because of lack of testing (which I have performed for Pyun who wrote the patch), but apparently because of lack of reliable documentation. There is a driver for FreeBSD on the Marvell web site, which did work for me, but I am told it is unreliable. I also have had a hard time getting the sound to work. The oss port does work, but has a habit of freezing up.
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