Experience with Dell Latitude D620?

[Daniel Eischen]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Eric Anderson wrote:

> On 10/25/06 13:19, Doug Barton wrote:
>> After a long (and sometimes ugly) ordeal with a few other manufacturers, I 
>> finally decided on a Dell Latitude D620, which is sitting here next to me. 
>> It has the new Core 2 Duo, and lots of other exciting bells and whistles. 
>> :) The only negative so far is the 3945 wireless, but I have an atheros 
>> pccard to use in the meantime.
>> 
>> I'm wondering what experiences people have with this, gotchas for FreeBSD, 
>> etc. I am planning to dual boot windows and -current. I am particularly 
>> interested in being able to suspend/resume in freebsd, so if anyone has got 
>> that working, please share the secrets. Also, has anyone with a core 2 duo 
>> tried running the 64 bit freebsd?
>
>
> Doug - my coworker has lots of Atheros mini-pci express wifi cards that he's 
> been selling for cheap.  I have been using it instead of the included card, 
> and am very happy.  You can email him at kramer at centtech.com if you want.

Are you sure they are mini-pci express, not mini-pci?  I couldn't
find any Atheros-based mini-pci express cards when I looked just
a few months ago.

I'd love to get my hands on one of these if they are express.

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DE