Re: Dell laptops
Daniel Eischen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Anish Mistry wrote: > 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? I'll do that later when I get access to it, but I did try disabling ACPI and it still didn't work. Would that make a difference? -- DE _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"