Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Eric Schuele wrote: I purchased mine from: http://www.pcdgloabl.com Which as luck would have it is within a mile of my office. So I just drove over there. Terrific. 1. Mis-type of the url: it is actually http://www.pcdglobal.com :) 2. Which model do you have? The Mini-PCI 802.11b/g AR5004? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:52:43PM +1030, 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? I have an 1150 and it works great with RELENG_5 for me. I don't have the version with the internal wireless though. I use the bfe (Broadcom BCM4401) ethernet. No problems with that. If you get one, go straight to Dell's support site and get the latest bios. I had to do that before X would work. There have been a few bios updates and my 1150 was shipped with an out-dated bios which I thought lacked attention to detail by Dell when they build the machines to order in Malaysia. I got a CD R/W and DVD R and that works fine. USB2.0 ports function well as does sound. Whenever I watch videos, I choose to use the 1150 for that. Obviously the winmodem doesn't work with FreeBSD. That's the only device that isn't recognised during boot. Once thing I really like about it is being able to set the bios to boot via the ethernet port. That makes net-booting FreeBSD for driver development a breeze. I run RELENG_5 installed on the hard disk and net-boot to CURRENT. If I remember correctly, it took me about 10 minutes to get XP off it and FreeBSD on. -- John Birrell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
On Friday, 7 January 2005 at 9:46:23 +1100, John Birrell wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:52:43PM +1030, 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? I have an 1150 and it works great with RELENG_5 for me. I don't have the version with the internal wireless though. I use the bfe (Broadcom BCM4401) ethernet. No problems with that. Thanks for the info. If you get one, go straight to Dell's support site and get the latest bios. I had to do that before X would work. There have been a few bios updates and my 1150 was shipped with an out-dated bios which I thought lacked attention to detail by Dell when they build the machines to order in Malaysia. Interesting. I had a similar problem with my 5150 18 months ago (see http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jul2003.html#25 for details). Is this what you saw? Once thing I really like about it is being able to set the bios to boot via the ethernet port. That makes net-booting FreeBSD for driver development a breeze. That sounds useful, indeed. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpakaZFNBVBO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Tom Vilot wrote: Eric Schuele wrote: I purchased mine from: http://www.pcdgloabl.com Which as luck would have it is within a mile of my office. So I just drove over there. Terrific. 1. Mis-type of the url: it is actually http://www.pcdglobal.com :) Yes.. thanks for correcting. 2. Which model do you have? The Mini-PCI 802.11b/g AR5004? I purchased the 802.11a/b/g AR5004:5213+5112. I have not been able to test the 802.11a... but b/g work just fine. For whatever reason (someone may be able to answer) the card is detected as 5212a/b/g by ath. Works fine so I'm happy. ath0: Atheros 5212 mem 0xfafe-0xfafe irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 5ghz radio 3.6 ath0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps The prices I was quoted when I purchased: Cost for the modules are: Part Number Description Qty Price T60H835.00 802.11a/b/g Mini - PCI Module 1 - 9 pcs $75.00 (Atheros:AR5213+AR5112) 40 pcs $55.00 T60H786.00 802.11b/g Mini - PCI Module1 - 9 pcs $65.00 (Atheros:AR5213+AR2112) 40 pcs $45.00 They (Chris Bartlett) were nice enough to give me the 40pc price for a single. DO NOTE: They told me they do not do returns... also.. there was no packing. They reached into a closed with thousands of them... wrapped the miniPCI in bubble wrap and handed it to me. So there may be no docs/support or anything. They apparently sell to OEM. I didn't need anything but the card... so it didn't bother me. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
On 16:52, Wed 05 Jan 05, 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 Hey Greg, A college friend has one of these, I don't know much about it, except that he is running Fedora Core 3 and had no luck trying to get internal wireless card working, so he had to get a PCMCIA wireless card. If thats any helpful to you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 11:19:16 +, Sarunas Vancevicius wrote: On 16:52, Wed 05 Jan 05, 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? A college friend has one of these, I don't know much about it, except that he is running Fedora Core 3 and had no luck trying to get internal wireless card working, so he had to get a PCMCIA wireless card. Thanks. If thats any helpful to you. Well, Fedora Core 3 is Linux. As it happens, at work I've just installed it too. I don't think a failure there has much relevance to FreeBSD. But thanks for the feedback. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgppt88KAuHYj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
I've been the happy owner of a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a TrueMobile wireless card. Dual boot Windows/XP and FreeBSD 5.3, and so far never had any major issues. Hope this helps... -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg 'groggy' Lehey Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 07:23 To: FreeBSD mobile Mailing List; FreeBSD Questions Subject: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
[Resequenced, time: 40 seconds. See http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 19:24:27 +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote: On Wednesday, January 05, 2005 07:23, 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? I've been the happy owner of a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a TrueMobile wireless card. I suppose it's the out of sequence reply that made you miss: Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me Dual boot Windows/XP and FreeBSD 5.3, and so far never had any major issues. Hope this helps... Not really. As I said, I have other Dell laptops, and on the whole I'm happy. I'm looking for input on the 1150. Thanks anyway. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpIzkAvDNTxh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 11:20:31 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: 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? My point is... you may have to use the windows drivers with a wrapper to get it to work. Yes, that was my suspicion as well, and one of the reasons for my question. 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. Thanks, but no. I have wireless cards here. I was wondering about the onboard card. So you might dig around and try to find out positively whose card those miniPCI devices are. That's what I'm trying to do, and also (if possible) get more details about how to get them running. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpY7KMsonFdJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Eric Schuele wrote: 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. I might be interested in one of those. I have a Dell Inspiron 8200. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 11:20:31 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: 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? My point is... you may have to use the windows drivers with a wrapper to get it to work. Yes, that was my suspicion as well, and one of the reasons for my question. 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. Thanks, but no. I have wireless cards here. I was wondering about the onboard card. I was referring to the internal onboard (miniPCI) card. You could purchase the laptop without one (if that's an option) and then drop in your own. I chose an Atheros based one... but there are Prism based ones floating around as well. So you might dig around and try to find out positively whose card those miniPCI devices are. That's what I'm trying to do, and also (if possible) get more details about how to get them running. I can give you very specific instruction on how I got the 1300 (Broadcom) working with 5.2.1... but I don't think thats what your after. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Tom Vilot wrote: Eric Schuele wrote: 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. I might be interested in one of those. I have a Dell Inspiron 8200. I purchased mine from: http://www.pcdgloabl.com Which as luck would have it is within a mile of my office. So I just drove over there. DO NOTE: They have no return policy, as they prefer to cater to OEMs. But I've been very happy with mine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
