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 you're

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 02:34:55PM

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 adapter

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 need

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, and

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 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

2008-09-06 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

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 worth

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

2008-09-05 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 wrote:

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 anyone

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

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, 2008 at

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

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 Ubunut

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]

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

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 backported

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

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 be quite easy to

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

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 work. (I used

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 quite easy to port

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: This is supported