Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:37:51 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dell laptops Message-ID: <200607111338.01412.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607111252150.24473@sea.ntplx.net> References: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607111252150.24473@sea.ntplx.net>
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--nextPart3911821.ClsKTBoZ87 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 11 July 2006 13:10, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > What are the current problems, if any, on current Dell laptops > > have with FreeBSD? > > Yeah, thanks for asking! My Inspiron E1405 came with an Intel > 3945 A/B/G mini-PCI wireless that isn't supported (OpenBSD has > a seemingly actively maintained wpi driver for this card, and > I have an experimental FreeBSD driver from damien that I haven't > yet been able to get to work). I've ordered an Atheros-based > mini-PCI in the meantime, and can lend out the 3945 to anyone > willing to work on it. > > Also, the Fn (the blue key) can't be used to suspend, control > volume, switch CRT/LCD, etc, and most importantly enable the > radio on the wireless card (Fn + F2). Even if the wpi driver > works, it's worthless if I can't enable the radio. It might simply need an acpi function keys driver for your system. =20 Would you post an "acpidump -dt" from your system? =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart3911821.ClsKTBoZ87 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEs+H5xqA5ziudZT0RAuPNAJ9mYaops7UfYYqKp/Y3aw1IvMkQ1gCdFolQ fBQuppl9Jw+fV/zVubRLdAM= =ELey -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3911821.ClsKTBoZ87--
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