The atheros chipset in mine works well with FreeBSD 5.2.  (Athers 5212).   Good to see antoher fBSD 8600 owner.

Is that a mini-pci card or a PCMCIA? Do you recommend any places where I can get it cheap?

Thank you for your reply. I figured there would probably only be about 10 people who run FreeBSD on a dell laptop.

-Graham

Mine is a miniPCI. PCMCIA under FreeBSD still isn't what it should be.

Hi,

mattcowger, just installed freebsd 5.2.1 on my i8600.
i have some trouble setting up wireless & X.
is it possible for you to post your kernel & x config.

My System:

nspiron 8600
15.4" Samsung WSGXA+ (1680x1050)
Pentium-M 1.5GHz
512 MB Memory, 80GB HD
Ati Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo
Dell Truemobile 1300 (b/g)
NEC DVD+RW

thx
Martin

Im also running FreeBSD on my laptop (X300). I havent got the Wireless working at all but I have the X going great.
Someone knows anyone who has gotten wireless to work with the Dell TrueMobile 1300 interface? Is it even possible to get it to work? As far as I know broadcom hasn't release any info to OpenSource to get a driver?

Hi,

i found only one way to enable the truemobile card. You have to use the NDISulator module and use the windows driver.
have a look here http://www.xl0.org/FreeBSD/ndis.txt