Re: HP 620 - first install and where is my wireless?

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>Robert Swindells wrote:
>> An external dongle or built in to the laptop ?
>
>It is built-in into the laptop. Most probably the button activates both 
>WLAN and BT. I am interested in WLAN first.
>
>> Does the Ralink wifi device show up if you run usbdevs(8) ?
>>
>> There are a number of newer Ralink devices that are not supported by
>> the run(4) driver in 7.0 and -current, I have patches against -current
>> to add support for a few more.
>
>It is not USB at all, sorry for that. Christos got the line:
>
>vendor 0x1814 product 0x3090 (miscellaneous network) at pci2 dev 0 
>function 0 not configured
>
>Do your patches contemplate this chip perhaps?

Not really, they are just for the USB version.

>Else, if you have patience we can try working together on importing the 
>OpenBSD driver. I don't have any Kernel experience, however I do know C 
>and this laptop is fast enough that doing some kernel compiling.
>Apparently the RT3090 is used in several laptops from HP and Lenovo, so 
>supporting it could make more people happy.

I think Christos has imported the latest OpenBSD code for the PCI driver.

You might want to try a -current kernel from the autobuild cluster.

Robert Swindells