5.4 on a Dell D800

Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     I tried installing 5.4 on my Dell D800 laptop. 
After the first 
> boot, my keyboard stopped working.  I don't know what
to do from now or 
> if it is even worth the effort.  Should I try 6.0RC?
> 
> Regards,

I have 5.4 installed on a 2 year old Dell D800 laptop and so
far 
everything works perfectly except for my CDROM (which I'm
beginning to 
think is failing anyway).

You might want to check the boot messages and see what
keyboard drivers 
it's loading, or connecting an external keyboard and seeing
if that works.

Wayne
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On Behalf Of Wayne Witzke
> 
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >     I tried installing 5.4 on my Dell D800 laptop.
 After the
first 
> > boot, my keyboard stopped working.  I don't know
what to do 
> from now 
> > or if it is even worth the effort.  Should I try
6.0RC?
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
> I have 5.4 installed on a 2 year old Dell D800 laptop
and so 
> far everything works perfectly except for my CDROM
(which I'm 
> beginning to think is failing anyway).
> 
> You might want to check the boot messages and see what 
> keyboard drivers it's loading, or connecting an
external 
> keyboard and seeing if that works.
> 
> Wayne

Hi Wayne, can you post your kernel config file, or tell us
what
devices you're using for sound and the wireless nic?  My
wireless nic
is an Intel 2200BG, I don't know if they're the same for all
D800's,
mine is only about a year old.  Thanks,
Bob

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Bob Middaugh wrote:
> On Behalf Of Wayne Witzke
> 
>>Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>    I tried installing 5.4 on my Dell D800
laptop.  After the
> 
> first 
> 
>>>boot, my keyboard stopped working.  I don't know
what to do 
>>
>>from now 
>>
>>>or if it is even worth the effort.  Should I try
6.0RC?
>>
>>I have 5.4 installed on a 2 year old Dell D800
laptop and so 
>>far everything works perfectly except for my CDROM
(which I'm 
>>beginning to think is failing anyway).
>>
> 
> Hi Wayne, can you post your kernel config file, or tell
us what
> devices you're using for sound and the wireless nic? 
My wireless nic
> is an Intel 2200BG, I don't know if they're the same
for all D800's,
> mine is only about a year old.  Thanks,
> Bob

Well, my wireless nic is a DELL TrueMobile 1300 (it's a
rebranded 
Broadcom card, I think), and the audio is a SigmaTel
STAC9750/51 AC97 
Codec.  At least, that's what dmesg is telling me about my
sound card, 
and since I'm listening to music right now I can only assume
it's right.

In order to get the audio working, I had to add the
following line to 
/boot/loader.conf:

snd_ich_load="YES"

My wireless nic is an 802.11b/g card, and in order to get it
to work, I 
had to go the Project Evil route.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.
ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

That gets the device up and running, but you also have to
figure out 
what your ssid is and set that using ifconfig for ndis0.

But, heh, but doing a quick search to find out where to
specify ssid in 
configuration options to make it pick that up automatically
on boot, I 
ran across this:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.
ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

I get the impression that you might want to try this first. 
It looks 
like it might be a bit more specific to your hardware.

Hope this helps!

Wayne
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