Drivers for my PC
Soumendra Ganguly
soumendraganguly at gmail.com
Mon Oct 28 14:32:12 UTC 2013
Dear driver developers,
I recently bought a notebook (hp
pavilion 15-e006tu) which came with FreeDOS. I installed FreeBSD 9.2
(amd64) on it (using dvd1.iso *), removing FreeDOS and later noticed
that the Wi-Fi is not working. Then I checked the list of hardwares
supported by FreeBSD 9.2 (which I should have done prior to installing
the OS) and found out that some of the components of my PC are not in
the list. For example the Wi-Fi adapter (RalinkTech VQF-RT3290), the
Bluetooth adapter (same model name as the Wi-Fi adapter, Ralink
VQF-RT3290), and I do not even know if the Ethernet interface is
supported. Later I realized that since the Wi-Fi adapter is not
recognized, the FreeBSD installation said something like - 'no
configurable NIC found' (or something similar, I hope you know what I
mean). I really want to use FreeBSD. My other computer has Windows and
Ubuntu on it. I want to port some of my code to FreeBSD. What to do?
Please help! I do not know how to write drivers (I would love to be
able to though) ! Help, please!
* I converted the iso to a usb installation medium to install FreeBSD.
I have created an image of the flash drive using dd(1) on ubuntu and
saved it to my external hard drive for future use.
Thank you. I will be really grateful if someone helps.
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