From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 00:40:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996C116A4CE; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:40:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3541343D39; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:40:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 2369C85665; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:10:37 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:10:37 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Eric Schuele Message-ID: <20050106004037.GA53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050105062243.GO53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> <41DC21DF.30801@computer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MziYxCZO8WOaTd4I" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41DC21DF.30801@computer.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: FreeBSD Questions cc: FreeBSD mobile Mailing List Subject: Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:40:40 -0000 --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--