HP dv5140us

[Eric Anderson]

Eric Anderson wrote:
> Warner Losh wrote:
>> OK.  I decided that I wanted to try the amd64 laptops with cardbus,
>> express card and SD slot.  And I wanted to buy it from the shops
>> locally on saturday.  This means I went with a big, and kinda bulky
>> laptop from HP the dv5140us.  It was a bunch cheaper than the lifebook
>> I was looking at, and didn't have a two week lead time for the model
>> that I wanted.  Maybe I'll get one of them next year :-)
>>
>> Alas, FreeBSD doesn't perfectly support this laptop.  I got lucky with
>> X, since the ATI part that in here just worked.  The wireless card and
>> the sound card appear to not have drivers.  I was wondering what my
>> options were for them:
>>
>> none4 at pci6:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1358103c chip=0x431914e4 
>> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>>     vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>>     class    = network
>>
>> (I'm guessing I'll have to do ndis for this one)
> 
> 
> You could replace it with a atheros based mini pci-express card.  Works 
> fine.  Search ebay for "atheros express".  I'm using one, and it's 
> working great.
> 
> Eric

I should say that when I claim I'm using one, I mean on my laptop, which 
isn't an HP, but uses mini pci express, and an atheros mini pci express 
card which was swapped with a broadcom that came in it.


Eric





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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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