Inspiron 1525 Hardware

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>  > Gavin Atkinson wrote:
>  > >On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
>  > >>On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
>  > >>
>  > >>>This is supported by the iwn(4) driver in CURRENT, and it should be
>  > >>>quite easy to port the driver to 7-STABLE.  If you're interested in
>  > >>>reinstalling FreeBSD and testing a backported driver, I'm sure this  
>  > >>>can be sorted.
>  > >>I am interested in doing this.  Please advise on how I can get these  
>  > >>bits.
>  > >
>  > >I've got hold of a laptop with the 4965 chipset in it, if nobody beats
>  > >me to it I'll have a go at backporting the driver.
>  > 
>  > I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 with the intel wireless ethernet.
>  > 
>  > The iwn driver in CURRENT works well.
>  > 
>  > The http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.88E8040.patch patch for 
>  > the 88E8040 simply doesn't work.  It is not because of lack of testing 
>  > (which I have performed for Pyun who wrote the patch), but apparently 
>  > because of lack of reliable documentation.  There is a driver for 
> 
> Another problem is lack of hardware. 88E8040 seems to be intialized
> after applying the patch but link establishment seem to fail. :-(

Yong-Hyeon,

I can purchase and send you a Marvel 88E8040 NIC, assuming we can find a
PCI or PCIe card somewhere that uses one.  Otherwise, I could purchase a
motherboard which uses the IC and send that to you.

Let me know if this would be of any help!

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