On Wednesday 10 March 2010 11:00:03 George Liaskos wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3/10/2010 12:13 PM, George Liaskos wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis<[email protected]> > >> > >> wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I am interested in buying a laptop from the > >>> Dell Inspiron 15 series. Most of them are having > >>> a wifi card branded as 'Dell Wireless 1397'. > >>> Is there a driver for this? > >>> > >>> I would prefer a native driver, but success > >>> stories using it with NDIS or other general > >>> comments regarding the Dell Inspiron 15 series > >>> are welcome. > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >>> > From a quick google query this card should have a Broadcom BCM43xx > >>> > chipset. > >> > >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bwi > > > > Thanks, but I've already done the quick google and > > the not-so-quick google look. The results were not > > that positive. Do you know by personal experience > > that this card is working with bwi driver? > > > > Or at least with NDIS and amd64? > > > > Thanks, Nikos > > No, i do not have this card but i trust the man pages :) > > I found this post : > http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php/product/4325/sl/i > > >0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev > > 01) > > Maybe what you find is based on experiences before May 16, 2009? > > Regards > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[email protected]" >
I have 8-STABLE amd64 I have a dell vostro 1320 with a 4315 wireless and got it working with the bwn driver from HEAD (svn) and the net/bwn-firmware-kmod port. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winfoes FREE) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
