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A recent commit by Michael Neumann makes qemu work, and also the “HP Compaq” (They’re using both names now?) laptop model 6710b. This apparently was a USB issue.

The recent release of the RadeonHD 1.2 driver lists DragonFly support as a new feature, among other changes. Can someone test and confirm? (found via Google Alerts)

This was mentioned before, but now it’s official: ipw(4) is gone, superseded by iwl(4).

Sascha Wildner’s added experimental support for NICs using Silan Microelectronics’ SC92301 chip.

Matthias Schmidt has created a ‘mobile devices’ (meaning laptops) section on the DragonFly wiki; there’s already a section there for two different IM laptops.  Please contribute if you have run DragonFly on other mobile devices, especially if you are one of the people who has mentioned it before.

Matthias Drochner managed to get one of those USB-powered missile launchers working on NetBSD; it looks enough like a USB keyboard that this could work on any BSD.  (Via Hubert Feyrer)

Matthias Schmidt has added a handy tool for converting USB ids from other BSDs into a format for DragonFly.

HAsso Tepper has committed changes that allow recognition of  the EVDO/UMTS card found in in a Thinkpad X61.

Sepherosa Ziehau is planning to remove support for the awi(4), ray(4) and gx(4) devices in the next DragonFly release. These are (I think) all wireless devices; please speak up on kernel@ or users@ if you actually need/use them.

Stephane Russell posted on users@ asking for opinions on using commodity gateways (Linksys devices, etc) vs. DragonFly for a firewall and network gateway device.

Link summation time!  Those gateway devices can run open-source operating systems - most famously the Linksys WRT54G. However, they can be problematic, though “Tomato” was recommended, as was OpenWRT. For read-only security, you can also boot from CD, as Dave Hayes does.

Matthew Dillon pointed out a small device that boots an free OS is all you need, which leads to stores selling my personal fascination: teeny computer systems. Michael Neumann listed favorites pcengines.ch and soekris.com, and Thomas Donnelly added Logic Supply.

Dmitry Komissaroff has a new version of his Bluetooth port available for testing.

Hasso Tepper has committed all the recent changes to sound infrastructure in FreeBSD-6 to DragonFly; this improves sound support on a number of different laptops.

Aggelos Economopoulos has submitted a series of patches to bring pmctools into DragonFly; PMC stands for “Performance Measurement Counters”.  Give them a whirl, as positive or negative feedback will get him to continue work.

Hasso Tepper has added some USB to serial drivers: uticom(4) for TI TUSB3410, moscom(4)  for the MosChip Semiconductor MCS7703, and uchcom(4), for WinChipHead CH341/CH340.  Dmitry Komissaroff contributed to the uticom(4) driver.

Dmitry Komissaroff has done his own port of the bluetooth stack from NetBSD to DragonFly; check his early version out if you have suggestions, as he’s still working on some of the devices involved.

Chris Turner posted some notes about hardware compatibility on AMD motherboards he’s used lately with DragonFly.

Hasso Tepper reports via #dragonflybsd his WinTec Pegasus ADD2 card works just fine under DragonFly. For those who are unfamiliar with this card, like me: it uses a PCI Express x16 slot to offer two additional DVI connections in addition to an existing Intel 915/945/965 chipset’s analog video output. Three video outputs, very cheaply.

Dmitry Komissaroff has ported the uticom driver from FreeBSD to DragonFly; it’s available at SourceForge and may get into the system too.