5.4 on a Dell D800

Wayne Witzke wwitzke at sstire.com
Thu Oct 13 07:05:52 PDT 2005


Bob Middaugh wrote:
> On Behalf Of Wayne Witzke
> 
>>Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>    I tried installing 5.4 on my Dell D800 laptop.  After the
> 
> first 
> 
>>>boot, my keyboard stopped working.  I don't know what to do 
>>
>>from now 
>>
>>>or if it is even worth the effort.  Should I try 6.0RC?
>>
>>I have 5.4 installed on a 2 year old Dell D800 laptop and so 
>>far everything works perfectly except for my CDROM (which I'm 
>>beginning to think is failing anyway).
>>
> 
> Hi Wayne, can you post your kernel config file, or tell us what
> devices you're using for sound and the wireless nic?  My wireless nic
> is an Intel 2200BG, I don't know if they're the same for all D800's,
> mine is only about a year old.  Thanks,
> Bob

Well, my wireless nic is a DELL TrueMobile 1300 (it's a rebranded 
Broadcom card, I think), and the audio is a SigmaTel STAC9750/51 AC97 
Codec.  At least, that's what dmesg is telling me about my sound card, 
and since I'm listening to music right now I can only assume it's right.

In order to get the audio working, I had to add the following line to 
/boot/loader.conf:

snd_ich_load="YES"

My wireless nic is an 802.11b/g card, and in order to get it to work, I 
had to go the Project Evil route.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

That gets the device up and running, but you also have to figure out 
what your ssid is and set that using ifconfig for ndis0.

But, heh, but doing a quick search to find out where to specify ssid in 
configuration options to make it pick that up automatically on boot, I 
ran across this:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

I get the impression that you might want to try this first.  It looks 
like it might be a bit more specific to your hardware.

Hope this helps!

Wayne


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