Drivers for my hardware

[Julian H. Stacey]

"David Prock" wrote:
> ill be the lab-rat, i have the hardware, if someone can write the drivers.
> My wifi, 3D support (uses vesa), and SD Card are the obvious things that dont work.
> we could audio/video/text chat and ill do evertyhing you say... when its bsd related lol
> and i will let u know the out/results.. 
> So basicly im willing to be your remote eyes if someone is willing to write the drivers for my hardware.
> 
> It's a Dell Latitude E6420, Laptop.

Probably you will end up [also] running current, not a release, 'cos that's
what driver writers develop against usually.

If you don't have a curent partition on your laptop yet, do a backup,
& repartition & grab the latest 10 Beta 1 & install in a partition.
(good to have mutliple partitions for when one goes wrong.  I suggest
do minimal installs of a release & 10 Beta 1 & make sure none kill
each other's boot, than install extras.

Regardless what internal lan chip you have, 
If you install current, then for 10 Euros you can buy a wlan usb
adapter that sticks out just 3mm from edge of case, that should 
solve wlan for you, (it uses urwtn driver which is not in 9.* )

Link to more on the 3 millimetre wlan chip.
 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-October/045333.html
 http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/share/man/man4/urtwn.4.REL=current.diff
 http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/driver_search.html

Cheers,
Julian
-- 
Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com
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