Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:28:00 -0600 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD mobile Mailing List <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? Message-ID: <41DCCC60.7060309@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <20050106004037.GA53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050105062243.GO53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> <41DC21DF.30801@computer.org> <20050106004037.GA53273@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > 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. > > > 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. I was referring to the internal onboard (miniPCI) card. You could purchase the laptop without one (if that's an option) and then drop in your own. I chose an Atheros based one... but there are Prism based ones floating around as well. > > >>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. I can give you very specific instruction on how I got the 1300 (Broadcom) working with 5.2.1... but I don't think thats what your after. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -- Regards, Eric
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