Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

[Matthew Seaman]

Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Friday, December 24, 2004 7:56 PM -0600 Scott Bennett 
> <bennett at cs.niu.edu> wrote:
> 
>>
>>      I did.  The only Dell card listed is the Dell TrueMobile 1150, which
>> I think is a fairly old card that Dell no longer sells.  Dell's recent
>> catalogues list only the Intel PRO Wireless 2100 and 2200, the Dell
>> Wireless 1350 and 1450, and the Dell TrueMobile 300 Bluetooth.  The Dell
>> Wireless 1450, which is the card I'm trying to get to work, is made by
>> Broadcom, and I think Broadcom makes the chips on it as well.  The wi
>> driver is for a different manufacturer's chip set, so my guess is that
>> the wi driver is not applicable to the Dell Wireless 1450.
>>
>>>
> I hate to say this, but I don't think your card is supported.  It's not 
> listed in the HCL, even for 5.3, and it doesn't even look like there are 
> linux drivers for it yet.

On the other hand, you may just be able to use it with the ndisulator. 
That's a wrapper around a windows native driver for the card that lets 
you turn it into a FreeBSD loadable kernel object.  You should be 
running 5.3-RELEASE or later for best results.

See ndiscvt(8) and this message (you can ignore all the stuff about 
anon-cvs and building the supporting applications -- the NDIS stuff is 
standard in 5.3, and all you need to do is run ndiscvt and build your 
if_ndis module)

 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-August/056835.html

Also, this site is very useful if you're trying to get a laptop working 
under FreeBSD:

     http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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