Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Eric Schuele <[email protected]>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number > of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. > Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me > good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal > wireless card to work? > > Greg FWIW I think the 1150 ships with either a truemobile 1350 or 1450 (your choice). It's my understanding (from a quick google) that those are still broadcom devices. I had a Truemobile 1300 (Broadcom), and had to use NDISulator to get it running. That was with 5.2.1. Haven't looked into it much but I think NDIS is built into the kernel now?? Not sure. My point is... you may have to use the windows drivers with a wrapper to get it to work. It worked well... but I was running from windows to begin with. On the other hand... I've switched to an Atheros based miniPCI card which works quite well with 'device ath'. I can give you a link if your interested. So you might dig around and try to find out positively whose card those miniPCI devices are. HTH -- Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"