Re: trying to make a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300 work with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT (2008.11)

Hi

2008/11/23 Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd_at_gmail.com>:

> As for the wireless driver, could you forward with more details about
> your laptop, like the spec sheet, perhaps? We'll need the model type
> for the laptop at least so we can find out the required specs (Toshiba
> releases various revisions of each model with different specs).

If it;s any help the kern.log shows the following under ubuntu (but I
really want freebsd ;)) - it is still non-working under ubuntu.

[from kern.log]
Nov 22 17:10:59 ubuntu kernel: [  105.708047] rtl8187: Invalid hwaddr!
Using randomly generated MAC address
Nov 22 17:10:59 ubuntu kernel: [  214.908048] rtl8187: 8187B chip
detected. Support is EXPERIMENTAL, and could damage your
Nov 22 17:10:59 ubuntu kernel: [  214.908050]          hardware, use
at your own risk
Nov 22 17:10:59 ubuntu kernel: [  214.909768] phy0: Selected rate
control algorithm 'pid'
Nov 22 17:10:59 ubuntu kernel: [  218.447469] phy0: hwaddr
6e:72:7b:10:73:c6, RTL8187BvB V1 + rtl8225z2
Nov 22 17:10:59 ubuntu kernel: [  218.447515] usbcore: registered new
interface driver rtl8187
[/kern.log]

Latest updates of stuff I've tried and comments are on
http://www.growveg.org/laptop/

thanks
-- 
John