On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Gavin Atkinson wrote: > >On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > >>On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > >> > >>>This is supported by the iwn(4) driver in CURRENT, and it should be > >>>quite easy to port the driver to 7-STABLE. If you're interested in > >>>reinstalling FreeBSD and testing a backported driver, I'm sure this > >>>can be sorted. > >>I am interested in doing this. Please advise on how I can get these > >>bits. > > > >I've got hold of a laptop with the 4965 chipset in it, if nobody beats > >me to it I'll have a go at backporting the driver. > > I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 with the intel wireless ethernet. > > The iwn driver in CURRENT works well. > > The http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.88E8040.patch patch for > the 88E8040 simply doesn't work. It is not because of lack of testing > (which I have performed for Pyun who wrote the patch), but apparently > because of lack of reliable documentation. There is a driver for
Another problem is lack of hardware. 88E8040 seems to be intialized after applying the patch but link establishment seem to fail. :-( > FreeBSD on the Marvell web site, which did work for me, but I am told it > is unreliable. > > I also have had a hard time getting the sound to work. The oss port > does work, but has a habit of freezing up. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
