From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 17:20:52 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 9289116A4CE; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:20:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1145443D60; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:20:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [208.206.151.59] (host59.gtisd.com[208.206.151.59]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005010517204601100fetdte>; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:20:50 +0000 Message-ID: <41DC21DF.30801@computer.org> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:20:31 -0600 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041228) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey References: <20050105062243.GO53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050105062243.GO53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:20:52 -0000 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? > > Greg FWIW I think the 1150 ships with either a truemobile 1350 or 1450 (your choice). It's my understanding (from a quick google) that those are still broadcom devices. I had a Truemobile 1300 (Broadcom), and had to use NDISulator to get it running. That was with 5.2.1. Haven't looked into it much but I think NDIS is built into the kernel now?? Not sure. My point is... you may have to use the windows drivers with a wrapper to get it to work. It worked well... but I was running from windows to begin with. 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. So you might dig around and try to find out positively whose card those miniPCI devices are. HTH -- Regards, Eric