laptop Dell M4400 with -CURRENT?

Sam Leffler sam at freebsd.org
Tue Apr 28 14:43:04 UTC 2009


Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm planning to order a new laptop and got an offer for a Dell M4400
> with the following main details:
>
>    Precision M4400 : Intel Core 2 Extreme X9100 (3.06GHz,1066MHz,6MB)
>    Base Option : 512MB Discrete nVidia FX770M Graphics Card (with 512MB dedicated memory)
>    Palmrest : UPEK Swipe Fingerprint Reader Biometric
>    Display : 15.4in Widescreen WUXGA (1920X1200) with Dual CCFL
>    Camera : Integrated 0.3 Mega Pixel Camera with Microphone for 2CCFL LCD Panel
>    LCD Back Cover : 2CCFL
>    Memory : 4096MB (2x2048) 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel
>    disk : 250GB Serial ATA (7200 1/min) Festplatte (Free-Fall-Sensor)
>    Optical Drive : Roxio Creator 9.0 Software and Media Included
>    Optisches Laufwerk : 8x DVD+/-RW Laufwerk ohne Software
>    Battery : Primary 9-cell 85 W/HR LI-ION  451-10589
>    Battery : Additional 6-Cell 56 W/HR LI-ION  451-10590
>    Wireless : EMEA Dell Wireless 1510 (802.11a/b/g/n 2X3) MiniCard for Core 2 Extreme ONLY
>    Wireless : EMEA Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth 2.1 MiniCard 
>    Keyboard : Internal German Qwertz Keyboard
>
> I let the one which owns a colleague (running XP) booting a recent
> CURRENT from USB and the complete dmegs and pciconf output are here:
>
> http://www.unixarea.de/DellM4400-dmesg.txt
> http://www.unixarea.de/DellM4400-pciconf.txt
>
> Does anbody has an idea if this is compatibel with FreeBSD  CURRENT?
> For example I don't see the Dell Wireless 1510 in the pciconf?
>
>   

Looks like wireless is a Broadcom 432x part:

none2 at pci0:12:0:0:	class=0x028000 card=0x000d1028 chip=0x432b14e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    class      = network

No native driver available.

	Sam




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