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Date:      Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:18:33 -0500
From:      Thomas Donnelly <tad1214@aol.com>
Cc:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: laptop Dell M4400 with -CURRENT?
Message-ID:  <49F71E49.7090001@aol.com>
In-Reply-To: <49F715F6.8020603@freebsd.org>
References:  <20090428083627.GA3621@rebelion.Sisis.de> <49F715F6.8020603@freebsd.org>

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Sam Leffler wrote:
> Matthias Apitz wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm planning to order a new laptop and got an offer for a Dell M4400
>> with the following main details:
>>
>>    Precision M4400 : Intel Core 2 Extreme X9100 (3.06GHz,1066MHz,6MB)
>>    Base Option : 512MB Discrete nVidia FX770M Graphics Card (with 
>> 512MB dedicated memory)
>>    Palmrest : UPEK Swipe Fingerprint Reader Biometric
>>    Display : 15.4in Widescreen WUXGA (1920X1200) with Dual CCFL
>>    Camera : Integrated 0.3 Mega Pixel Camera with Microphone for 
>> 2CCFL LCD Panel
>>    LCD Back Cover : 2CCFL
>>    Memory : 4096MB (2x2048) 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel
>>    disk : 250GB Serial ATA (7200 1/min) Festplatte (Free-Fall-Sensor)
>>    Optical Drive : Roxio Creator 9.0 Software and Media Included
>>    Optisches Laufwerk : 8x DVD+/-RW Laufwerk ohne Software
>>    Battery : Primary 9-cell 85 W/HR LI-ION  451-10589
>>    Battery : Additional 6-Cell 56 W/HR LI-ION  451-10590
>>    Wireless : EMEA Dell Wireless 1510 (802.11a/b/g/n 2X3) MiniCard 
>> for Core 2 Extreme ONLY
>>    Wireless : EMEA Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth 2.1 MiniCard    
>> Keyboard : Internal German Qwertz Keyboard
>>
>> I let the one which owns a colleague (running XP) booting a recent
>> CURRENT from USB and the complete dmegs and pciconf output are here:
>>
>> http://www.unixarea.de/DellM4400-dmesg.txt
>> http://www.unixarea.de/DellM4400-pciconf.txt
>>
>> Does anbody has an idea if this is compatibel with FreeBSD  CURRENT?
>> For example I don't see the Dell Wireless 1510 in the pciconf?
>>
>>   
>
> Looks like wireless is a Broadcom 432x part:
>
> none2@pci0:12:0:0:  class=0x028000 card=0x000d1028 chip=0x432b14e4 
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>    class      = network
>
> No native driver available.
>
>    Sam
>
>
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Often times you can get the Intel wireless cards either by selecting the 
bubble, or if you call to your business rep in they can some times do 
special things like that.

-=Tom




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