Re: Dell laptops

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.  
Would you post an "acpidump -dt" from your system?

-- 
Anish Mistry

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