Re: HP dv5140us

On Mon, 22 May 2006 00:40:13 -0600 (MDT)
Warner Losh <[email protected]> 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)
> 
Ndis will do just fine, but you need 64bit Windows driver for this,
and a bit ndisgen(8).

http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/misc/broadcom64_80211g.zip

Works flawlessly on mine.

> none1@pci0:20:5:        class=0x040100 card=0x30a4103c
> chip=0x43701002 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
       ^^^^^^^^^^
>     vendor   = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
>     class    = multimedia
>     subclass = audio
> 
> am I SOL on this and need to get the pcmcia/cardbus sound cards in
> my collection working?
> 
> 

kldload snd_atiixp :)


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Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

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