From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 22 12:19:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: mobile@freebsd.org 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 CA3A416A548 for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 12:19:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2E743D6B for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 12:19:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4MCJcDa051822; Mon, 22 May 2006 07:19:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4471AC5C.30309@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 07:19:40 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060506) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh References: <20060522.004013.41690205.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20060522.004013.41690205.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1476/Mon May 22 03:00:37 2006 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP dv5140us X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:19:55 -0000 Warner Losh wrote: > OK. I decided that I wanted to try the amd64 laptops with cardbus, > express card and SD slot. And I wanted to buy it from the shops > locally on saturday. This means I went with a big, and kinda bulky > laptop from HP the dv5140us. It was a bunch cheaper than the lifebook > I was looking at, and didn't have a two week lead time for the model > that I wanted. Maybe I'll get one of them next year :-) > > Alas, FreeBSD doesn't perfectly support this laptop. I got lucky with > X, since the ATI part that in here just worked. The wireless card and > the sound card appear to not have drivers. I was wondering what my > options were for them: > > none4@pci6:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1358103c chip=0x431914e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > class = network > > (I'm guessing I'll have to do ndis for this one) You could replace it with a atheros based mini pci-express card. Works fine. Search ebay for "atheros express". I'm using one, and it's working great. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------