--On Friday, December 24, 2004 7:56 PM -0600 Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I hate to say this, but I don't think your card is supported. It's not listed in the HCL, even for 5.3, and it doesn't even look like there are linux drivers for it yet.
I did. The only Dell card listed is the Dell TrueMobile 1150, which I think is a fairly old card that Dell no longer sells. Dell's recent catalogues list only the Intel PRO Wireless 2100 and 2200, the Dell Wireless 1350 and 1450, and the Dell TrueMobile 300 Bluetooth. The Dell Wireless 1450, which is the card I'm trying to get to work, is made by Broadcom, and I think Broadcom makes the chips on it as well. The wi driver is for a different manufacturer's chip set, so my guess is that the wi driver is not applicable to the Dell Wireless 1450.
On the other hand, you may just be able to use it with the ndisulator. That's a wrapper around a windows native driver for the card that lets you turn it into a FreeBSD loadable kernel object. You should be running 5.3-RELEASE or later for best results.
See ndiscvt(8) and this message (you can ignore all the stuff about anon-cvs and building the supporting applications -- the NDIS stuff is standard in 5.3, and all you need to do is run ndiscvt and build your if_ndis module)
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-August/056835.html
Also, this site is very useful if you're trying to get a laptop working under FreeBSD:
http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
Cheers,
Matthew
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