Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:23:28 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Liontaur <liontaur@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netbooks & BSD Message-ID: <20101024232328.GA17179@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=VEfzOfbRJ87J9Pwc36FjDkyO6FUiEjNC-NjY5@mail.gmail.com> References: <20101004233302.GA62267@takino.homeftp.org> <AANLkTimHiUuA6aO0DycMARvC1XRYrRVtP5%2BsTvozAHiK@mail.gmail.com> <20101023061957.GA9331@thought.org> <AANLkTi=VEfzOfbRJ87J9Pwc36FjDkyO6FUiEjNC-NjY5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 03:52:43PM -0700, Liontaur wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 08:06:02PM -0700, Liontaur wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Mikle Krutov <nekoexmachina@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > > It's not on your list but I just got an HP 210-1010CA Mini Netbook (for > > > work) that i'm going to test with FreeBSD. I'll see about getting a dmesg > > > later tonight or tomorrow. I got it from the source (what they call radio > > > shack up here in Canada now) for $199 plus tax. > > > > > > Mark > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > $200 sounds like a win++. Please keep me posted.... > > > > gary > > > > Ok, here's a dmesg taken while running a livefs from a USB stick as that was > the easiest way I could think of getting it. I notice that the wireless () > was found but no driver attached so that's going to take some work. Also I > notice that the graphics is pineview which is also going to be problematic > since there's no driver for that either, other than the generic VESA driver. > I'd have to say that this particular netbook wouldn't be a good idea for > someone wanting to run FreeBSD. I'll see what ubuntu thinks of it at some > point. > > Mark > Well, thanks for the upfate re FBSD. What I especially don't like about Ubuntu is that it is 3/2 trick trying to get the festival [[text-to-speech]] stuff running on it. Maybe other flavors of linux are less restrictive. Oh-well! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org
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