Inspiron 1525 Hardware

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:54:23PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
 > 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.
 > 

I failed to find a standalone PCI/PCIe NIC based on 88E8040
controller in local store.

 > Let me know if this would be of any help!
 > 

Having a hardware surely helps a lot!

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon