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Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:27:29 +0000

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Comment on HOWTO: FreeBSD 6.2 ndisgen with Acer Aspire 5100 5102 WLMi with Broadcom Wlan chipset 4318 Rev 2 by Nick

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:25:30 +0000

I have freebsd 6.2 amd 64 version and i try this tutorial on mai acer aspire 5101 but it don’t work! Driver loads fine but it don’t recognise the card! Is this driver from the link for amd64 version?

Comment on HOWTO: FreeBSD 6.2 ndisgen with Acer Aspire 5100 5102 WLMi with Broadcom Wlan chipset 4318 Rev 2 by Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:13:34 +0000

Rita,

Linux has it’s own ndiswrapper and should work ok with it too.

Comment on FreeBSD with Laptop Acer Aspire 5100 WLMi by Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:11:54 +0000

Zork,

Someone works in AMD’s Linux driver with FreeBSD via binary emulation, but no results yet, beside I don’t know why AMD just doesn’t do what nVidia does.

nVidia driver works via linux emulator now.

Comment on FreeBSD with Laptop Acer Aspire 5100 WLMi by Jerry

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:59:51 +0000

Thanks for the report and comments! I have been looking for FreeBSD on an Acer laptop for quit some time, and think this blog looks very helpful. My next project will be to install FreeBSD 6.2 on an Acer TravelMate 4650. As soon as I got something useful results to report you will hear from me.

The idea is, to create a multiboot laptop with FreeBSD and XP.

Regards,

Jerry
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Comment on HOWTO: FreeBSD 6.2 ndisgen with Acer Aspire 5100 5102 WLMi with Broadcom Wlan chipset 4318 Rev 2 by Rita

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:02:58 +0000

oh i see that’s ndisgen script, will that work on linux configuration?

Comment on FreeBSD with Laptop Acer Aspire 5100 WLMi by Zork

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:57:50 +0000

You wrote:

“no 3D since AMD/ATI doesn’t provide drivers for FreeBSD and *BSD in General”

Can’t you use AMD’s Linux driver with FreeBSD via binary emulation?

Comment on FreeBSD with Laptop Acer Aspire 5100 WLMi by Alin

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:12:23 +0000

After some time in linux with my laptop i am back on FreeBSD but i have other questions about this laptop.

- how i can enable power saving and cpufreq on freebsd and if it workds for my Aspire?
- what is the best solution for touchpad? (i want scrooling on pad and scrooling on 4 diraction button)
- is there someone writing a FreeBSD driver for Broadcom Wireless driver based on rev. enge. documentation from linux driver or where can i search for a project like that?(i whant to help)
- when i log in, my keybord is not responding on first touch of any button and it works normal after that. Why is this happening, is not a big problem but is there a fix?

About using linux drivers in freebsd by an extra layer, i admit this is a solution, but it will place freebsd in a shadow! Best solution is writing native drivers and soportting USB bus as much as posible!

Thanks for your help!

Comment on FreeBSD with Laptop Acer Aspire 5100 WLMi by Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:26:30 +0000

It should work with no problems, the problem with it is due to Acer poor ACPI sandards, they don’t follow the standards at all.

The best one use ACPI is IBM thinkpad laptops.

If your WLAN is from broadcom check my blog about it here http://blog.wearab.net/arab/2006/12/22/howto-freebsd-ndisgen-with-acer-aspire-5100-5102-wlmi-with-broadcom-wlan-chipset-4318-rev-2/

As for CardReader I didn’t try to make it work since I never used

As for sysctl here is my sysctl.conf entries for the laptops in general too.

# Better time counters, especially for laptops (honors power saving modes)
kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254
kern.timecounter.hardware=ACPI-fast # If available

One more good thing,

There is a new project for emulating Linux drivers on FreeBSD, first tests are made with Linux webcam drivers.

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/linux_bsd_kld.html

Maybe this some way to port certain usb-multimedia-devices to FreeBSD.

So now you can install them from the ports too

http://www.freshports.org/devel/linux-kmod-compat/

Add new port for linux-kmod-compat - emulation layer to build
linux device drivers as FreeBSD kld modules. Details at

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/linux_bsd_kld.html

Two ports for webcam drivers that use this package are coming in
a matter of minutes.

NOTES:
+ This is only for 6.x and 7.x, no support planned for earlier versions.
+ At the moment only i386 but have patches for 64-bit architectures
that should be committed soon.
+ This port installs a file in /usr/share/mk . After some discussion
on the ports list this seems, to be the most reasonable thing to do.
portlint complains about it.

http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/linux-gspca-kmod/

This port builds a kernel module with the ‘gspca’ USB webcam driver
using the adaptation layer in devel/linux-kmod-compat
The web site for the original gspca driver (for Linux) is
http://mxhaard.free.fr/index.html

http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/linux-ov511-kmod/

This port builds a kernel module with the ‘ov511′ USB webcam driver
using the adaptation layer in devel/linux-kmod-compat
The sources are taken from the Linux kernel 2.6.x

Enjoy it

Comment on FreeBSD with Laptop Acer Aspire 5100 WLMi by Alin

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:42:22 +0000

I recompiled the kernel with “device ehci” disabled and it works . Pressing the power button will power of my laptop as aspected! My sound works with snd_hda module. Soon i will try to install the wireless card driver(i don’t need it right now).

What is “device ehci” for? Can i use my usb port as usual?
Is there a way to make the CardReader works in freebsd?
Did you made some fine tunnig with sysctl or something else!

I found this blog very useful! Thanks!