From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 19:17:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BEC71065671 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:17:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208198FC12 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:17:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o4so51337uge.39 for ; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:17:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=iYskCzVvocCX3ppRAuVHsgLg+WR/sUhfqs9ipd+7t/c=; b=tOrGWFKlWc/DRGCaMC43IAyqrEAhtTWFuBaBpJREoX2E4+TrsCma4MtrN+ybX/o4eY CQVnA40PWrDAhi+s7xBTQzByFtTz6BROxenpbyWdrkNkuh77K3sCAIjsu0pVywvnHwXC wxPOqyW/mRjuxA8COaHNt8Flo/mkD1joOav74= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=ehcKl/j3w039DuBGd77k7O505G8+OiNa1LL/kom/71uvShS+WIMXTfn8E8xoAgLQ3Y g/HVhy5amlwTn0rE52VfmRXBPD1dWwve6tHIlGzDwC3RXLjsAzBwzPaA8UITB48QMWNd 9oGW8SlUD+//Blu9hxlUqVEkUB4eTIBVTnoYk= Received: by 10.102.253.13 with SMTP id a13mr7233172mui.111.1220555835451; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.103.231.14 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:17:15 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" To: "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" In-Reply-To: <48C02768.1080207@math.missouri.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> <20080903191454.GA15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <1220545795.94705.15.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <49B92D81-74EC-4BAB-BEEC-EC4DCFF5E336@airwired.net> <1220550536.94705.18.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <48C02768.1080207@math.missouri.edu> Cc: Peter Jeremy , Dan Allen , Gavin Atkinson , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:17:17 -0000 On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > 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. Did you try using Alexander Motin's new snd_hda patches? They are available at http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/ -- cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life make clean