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Date:      Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:54:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell laptops
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607112352430.27869@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <200607111338.01412.mistry.7@osu.edu>
References:  <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607111252150.24473@sea.ntplx.net> <200607111338.01412.mistry.7@osu.edu>

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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.

-- 
DE



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