http://d-kriptik.com/blog/2005/09/29/freebsd-6-updating/ Bridging the technology gap between techies and everyone else. Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:39:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://d-kriptik.com/blog/2005/09/29/freebsd-6-updating/comment-page-1/#comment-13 D-kriptik Blog » Blog Archive » Dell Inspiron 8500 and FreeBSD 6 Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:41:50 +0000 http://d-kriptik.com/blog/?p=17#comment-13 [...] We have discussed Dell Inspiron 8500’s in previous posts (one of our clients needed some help with one, and this prompted us to start using an Inspiron we had lying around), and it seems configuring these laptops with GNU/Linux and FreeBSD are popular search terms for hitting this blog. As a result, we have been asked about wireless with WPA support by FreeBSD 6 on an Inspiron 8500 with a miniPCI wireless card. In this post, we discuss some of the configuration tweaks we made to get FreeBSD 6 working properly on our Inspiron. We start with X, then sound, then wireless. Beforehand, our previous post will help with getting the basic system setup and up to date. [...] [...] We have discussed Dell Inspiron 8500’s in previous posts (one of our clients needed some help with one, and this prompted us to start using an Inspiron we had lying around), and it seems configuring these laptops with GNU/Linux and FreeBSD are popular search terms for hitting this blog. As a result, we have been asked about wireless with WPA support by FreeBSD 6 on an Inspiron 8500 with a miniPCI wireless card. In this post, we discuss some of the configuration tweaks we made to get FreeBSD 6 working properly on our Inspiron. We start with X, then sound, then wireless. Beforehand, our previous post will help with getting the basic system setup and up to date. [...]

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