I recently purchased the Dell I6400 Ubuntu laptop, with the express intent of running FreeBSD on it. My intention was to use this a working machine using PC-BSD, I.E. RELENG_6, limiting tinkering, experimentation to other systems. It comes with an Intel 3945[1] mini PCIe card, which I knew would not work. So I ordered myself a Azurewave Atheros based mini PCIe card to replace it. Unfortunatly the ath_hal[2] doesn't recognise the hardware revision, so that doesn't work either. Does anybody know of a mini PCIe wireless card that works under RELENG_6? Failing that an ExpressCard? (The 6400 has no Card Bus) Notes: [1]I know there is a 3945 driver for 7 and an older rev fo 6, I tried it it locks up the machine. [2] Sam has a more recent HAL on his "people" page, but the headers have changed making it non-trivial, for me at least, to compile into a RELENG_6 kernel/module.
Michael Proto wrote:> > I don't have access to my laptop at the moment (and hence can't pull the > exact kernel output regarding the adapter), but I have a ThinkPad R60 > with the ThinkPad a/b/g miniPCI-e wireless card that worked fine under > FreeBSD 6.2. I believe you can find the actual part here: > > http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=40Y7026¤t-category-id=DD119CA6FA0E4518A4086EB8FF1FDD2B&model-number=9456 > > Part number: 40Y7026 >I neglected to mention this is an Atheros adapter that appears as ath0 on my system. -Proto
Geoff Buckingham wrote:> I recently purchased the Dell I6400 Ubuntu laptop, with the express intent of > running FreeBSD on it. > > My intention was to use this a working machine using PC-BSD, I.E. RELENG_6, limiting tinkering, experimentation to other systems. > > It comes with an Intel 3945[1] mini PCIe card, which I knew would not work. So > I ordered myself a Azurewave Atheros based mini PCIe card to replace it. > Unfortunatly the ath_hal[2] doesn't recognise the hardware revision, so that > doesn't work either. > > Does anybody know of a mini PCIe wireless card that works under RELENG_6? > Failing that an ExpressCard? (The 6400 has no Card Bus) > > Notes: > > [1]I know there is a 3945 driver for 7 and an older rev fo 6, I tried it > it locks up the machine. > [2] Sam has a more recent HAL on his "people" page, but the headers have > changed making it non-trivial, for me at least, to compile into a > RELENG_6 kernel/module. >I don't have access to my laptop at the moment (and hence can't pull the exact kernel output regarding the adapter), but I have a ThinkPad R60 with the ThinkPad a/b/g miniPCI-e wireless card that worked fine under FreeBSD 6.2. I believe you can find the actual part here: http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=40Y7026¤t-category-id=DD119CA6FA0E4518A4086EB8FF1FDD2B&model-number=9456 Part number: 40Y7026 -Proto
On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Geoff Buckingham wrote:> I recently purchased the Dell I6400 Ubuntu laptop, with the express > intent of running FreeBSD on it. > > My intention was to use this a working machine using PC-BSD, I.E. > RELENG_6, limiting tinkering, experimentation to other systems. > > It comes with an Intel 3945[1] mini PCIe card, which I knew would > not work. So I ordered myself a Azurewave Atheros based mini PCIe > card to replace it. Unfortunatly the ath_hal[2] doesn't recognise > the hardware revision, so that doesn't work either. > > Does anybody know of a mini PCIe wireless card that works under > RELENG_6? Failing that an ExpressCard? (The 6400 has no Card Bus) > > Notes: > > [1]I know there is a 3945 driver for 7 and an older rev fo 6, I > tried it it locks up the machine. > [2] Sam has a more recent HAL on his "people" page, but the headers > have changed making it non-trivial, for me at least, to compile > into a RELENG_6 kernel/module. >The Dell 1490 card works with NDIS. The go for less than $20 on ebay.
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:40:51AM -0600, David Booth wrote:> > > The Dell 1490 card works with NDIS. The go for less than $20 on ebay.I thought this was a mini-PCI not mini-PCI-express card or is this one of the occaisons where Dell switch product but retain the same name?