Dell laptops

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Anish Mistry wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 13:10, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> What are the current problems, if any, on current Dell laptops
>>> have with FreeBSD?
>>
>> Yeah, thanks for asking!  My Inspiron E1405 came with an Intel
>> 3945 A/B/G mini-PCI wireless that isn't supported (OpenBSD has
>> a seemingly actively maintained wpi driver for this card, and
>> I have an experimental FreeBSD driver from damien that I haven't
>> yet been able to get to work).  I've ordered an Atheros-based
>> mini-PCI in the meantime, and can lend out the 3945 to anyone
>> willing to work on it.
>>
>> Also, the Fn (the blue key) can't be used to suspend, control
>> volume, switch CRT/LCD, etc, and most importantly enable the
>> radio on the wireless card (Fn + F2).  Even if the wpi driver
>> works, it's worthless if I can't enable the radio.
>
> It might simply need an acpi function keys driver for your system.
> Would you post an "acpidump -dt" from your system?

I'll do that later when I get access to it, but I did try
disabling ACPI and it still didn't work.  Would that make
a difference?

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DE