Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:10:37 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Cc: FreeBSD mobile Mailing List <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? Message-ID: <20050106004037.GA53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <41DC21DF.30801@computer.org> References: <20050105062243.GO53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> <41DC21DF.30801@computer.org>
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--MziYxCZO8WOaTd4I Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 11:20:31 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number >> of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. >> Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me >> good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal >> wireless card to work? > > My point is... you may have to use the windows drivers with a wrapper to > get it to work.=20 Yes, that was my suspicion as well, and one of the reasons for my question. > On the other hand... I've switched to an Atheros based miniPCI card > which works quite well with 'device ath'. I can give you a link if > your interested. Thanks, but no. I have wireless cards here. I was wondering about the onboard card. > So you might dig around and try to find out positively whose card > those miniPCI devices are. That's what I'm trying to do, and also (if possible) get more details about how to get them running. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --MziYxCZO8WOaTd4I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB3IkFIubykFB6QiMRAqd4AJ0TGxSgm6Ma9feJYoo/bxWx1bu9YgCfVStS ba5A7e8cursP8dowYreCWGw= =BGHT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MziYxCZO8WOaTd4I--
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