Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 15:06:42 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware Message-ID: <20080905060642.GF65464@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <20080905055423.GA37775@icarus.home.lan> References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> <20080903191454.GA15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <E7F933AF-2D8A-462C-A44B-A140BB88C3DD@airwired.net> <1220545795.94705.15.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <49B92D81-74EC-4BAB-BEEC-EC4DCFF5E336@airwired.net> <1220550536.94705.18.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <48C02768.1080207@math.missouri.edu> <20080905053455.GD65464@cdnetworks.co.kr> <20080905055423.GA37775@icarus.home.lan>
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:54:23PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > > >On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > > > >>On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > > >> > > > >>>This is supported by the iwn(4) driver in CURRENT, and it should be > > > >>>quite easy to port the driver to 7-STABLE. If you're interested in > > > >>>reinstalling FreeBSD and testing a backported driver, I'm sure this > > > >>>can be sorted. > > > >>I am interested in doing this. Please advise on how I can get these > > > >>bits. > > > > > > > >I've got hold of a laptop with the 4965 chipset in it, if nobody beats > > > >me to it I'll have a go at backporting the driver. > > > > > > I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 with the intel wireless ethernet. > > > > > > The iwn driver in CURRENT works well. > > > > > > The http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.88E8040.patch patch for > > > the 88E8040 simply doesn't work. It is not because of lack of testing > > > (which I have performed for Pyun who wrote the patch), but apparently > > > because of lack of reliable documentation. There is a driver for > > > > Another problem is lack of hardware. 88E8040 seems to be intialized > > after applying the patch but link establishment seem to fail. :-( > > Yong-Hyeon, > :-) > I can purchase and send you a Marvel 88E8040 NIC, assuming we can find a > PCI or PCIe card somewhere that uses one. Otherwise, I could purchase a > motherboard which uses the IC and send that to you. > I failed to find a standalone PCI/PCIe NIC based on 88E8040 controller in local store. > Let me know if this would be of any help! > Having a hardware surely helps a lot! -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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