Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:29:55 +0100 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware Message-ID: <1220545795.94705.15.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <E7F933AF-2D8A-462C-A44B-A140BB88C3DD@airwired.net> References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> <20080903191454.GA15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <E7F933AF-2D8A-462C-A44B-A140BB88C3DD@airwired.net>
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On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:47 -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > Here is what lspci on Ubunut returns: > Slot: 09:00.0 > Class: Ethernet controller [0200] > Vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. [11ab] > Device: 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller [4354] > SVendor: Dell [1028] > SDevice: Unknown device [022f] > Rev: 12 This particular chip isn't supported in any version of FreeBSD at this moment. Patches do exist for it at http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.88E8040.patch but they haven't been integrated yet, presumably because it hasn't been sufficiently tested yet. > Slot: 0b:00.0 > Class: Network controller [0280] > Vendor: Intel Corporation [8086] > Device: PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection [4229] > SVendor: Intel Corporation [8086] > SDevice: Unknown device [1120] > Rev: 61 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. Gavin
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