Re: HP dv5140us

Eric Anderson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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