From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 07:51:34 2003 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 130C737B401; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8763A43FCB; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:51:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp851.sa.padsl.internode.on.net [150.101.247.82])h3PEpUZe079126; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:21:30 +0930 (CST) Received: from localhost (darius@midget.dons.net.au [10.0.2.7]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3PEpNLd053299; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:21:25 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Thomas Quinot Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:51:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200304202318.20956.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20030425144056.GA8542@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20030425144056.GA8542@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304251651.23535.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.8 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8500 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: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:51:34 -0000 On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:40, Thomas Quinot wrote: > Just received one today. The builtin WiFi adapter is still a Broadcom > chip for which there is no known open-source driver, and worse, the > builtin 100BT is now *also* a damned Broadcom thingy (BCM4401), for > which there is a Linux driver but no FreeBSD driver (and as someone else > recently noted, just adding a new chip ID to if_bge.c results in a nice, > immediate panic). Bummer :( I don't really care about the wireless doodad but the ethernet is pretty important. Is the Linux driver open source? > What was so wrong with the good ol' 3Com chips they had in > Inspiron 8200? :( I like the fxp in my 8000 :) Thanks for your email! BTW what video chipset did you get, and how difficult was it to get X running? And, have you tried any PCMCIA cards in it? (Just trying to determine whether the usual fiddly things will work :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5