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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