iwn(4) (Intel 4965 wireless) backport (was: Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware)

2008-09-22 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 18:48 +0100, 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 yo

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-07 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 06:06:55PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 05:50:36PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > It appears Linux got support for the 88E8040 in September 2007 (revision > > 1.2.73). Support for the 88E8040T was added in June 2008 (revision > > 1.330.1.3)

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-07 Thread Dan Allen
On 7 Sep 2008, at 7:57 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: You need a 'real' serial port for console, the other option would be to use Firewire (if the laptop has it). The Dell Inspiron 1525 DOES have a mini-Firewire port on the front of the machine. Dan ___

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:27:11AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > Ironically, I just bought an Inspiron 1525 for a friend of mine's > > > son as a birthday gift, so I do have access to one indirectly, >

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:27:11AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Ironically, I just bought an Inspiron 1525 for a friend of mine's son > > as a birthday gift, so I do have access to one indirectly, and can > > probably borrow it for a day or two if n

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Ironically, I just bought an Inspiron 1525 for a friend of mine's son > as a birthday gift, so I do have access to one indirectly, and can > probably borrow it for a day or two if need be. It lacks a serial > port, so I'd have to buy a USB serial adapte

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-07 Thread Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 20:43 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:26:33AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:06:42PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:54:23PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 05:50:36PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > It appears Linux got support for the 88E8040 in September 2007 (revision > 1.2.73). Support for the 88E8040T was added in June 2008 (revision > 1.330.1.3). > > The 1.2.73 commit also added support for the 88E8048 and the 88E8070.

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 01:12:29PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > On 5 Sep 2008, at 9:43 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> I cannot find a single PCI/PCIe card that uses the 88E8040. > > I wonder how Ubuntu supports this ethernet chip? It is amazing that > only two Dell's use this chip. Maybe it is not

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-06 Thread Dan Allen
On 5 Sep 2008, at 9:43 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I cannot find a single PCI/PCIe card that uses the 88E8040. I wonder how Ubuntu supports this ethernet chip? It is amazing that only two Dell's use this chip. Maybe it is not worth worrying about after all... Don't kill yourself over t

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:26:33AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:06:42PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:54:23PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 04, 200

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:06:42PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:54:23PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > > The http

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-05 Thread Alexander Motin
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >> Did you try using Alexander Motin's new snd_hda patches? They are >> available at >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/ > > Thanks. I hadn't tried them. But they didn't work. (I used the Sept 4 > patch on CURRENT.) > > I could provide more diagnostics if

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:54:23PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > 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 wrot

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > 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: > > >> > > >>>T

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
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 > >>>qui

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > >> Did you try using Alexander Motin's new snd_hda patches? They are >> available at >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/ >> > > Thanks. I hadn't tried them. But they didn't

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: Did you try using Alexander Motin's new snd_hda patches? They are available at http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/ Thanks. I hadn't tried them. But they didn't work. (I used the Sept 4 patch on CURRENT.) I could provide more diagnostics if anyone wants t

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 b

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
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

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Gavin Atkinson
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 backporte

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Dan Allen
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 do

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:47 -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > Here is what lspci on Ubunut returns: > Slot: 09:00.0 > Class:Ethernet controller [0200] > Vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. [11ab] > Device: 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller [4354] > SVendor: Dell [1028] > S

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:47:52AM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > On 3 Sep 2008, at 7:02 PM, Aragon Gouveia wrote: >> lspci ? > > I ran the lspci command and it states that the Ethernet is a Marvell > 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller. Are you looking for more info? > > Here is what lspci on Ubu

Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Dan Allen
On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:14 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: A large number of Marvell 88E80xx chips are supported by msk(4). If yours isn't, you are going to need to provide more details on what chip you have. On 3 Sep 2008, at 7:02 PM, Aragon Gouveia wrote: lspci ? I ran the lspci command and it st