From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 12 19:40:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506391065795 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:40:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maciej@suszko.eu) Received: from 30.mail-out.ovh.net (30.mail-out.ovh.net [213.186.62.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF65E8FC2E for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:40:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maciej@suszko.eu) Received: (qmail 6377 invoked by uid 503); 12 Mar 2009 19:14:18 -0000 Received: from b9.ovh.net (HELO mail439.ha.ovh.net) (213.186.33.59) by 30.mail-out.ovh.net with SMTP; 12 Mar 2009 19:14:18 -0000 Received: from b0.ovh.net (HELO queue-out) (213.186.33.50) by b0.ovh.net with SMTP; 12 Mar 2009 19:13:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (maciej@suszko.eu@62.61.57.118) by ns0.ovh.net with SMTP; 12 Mar 2009 19:13:58 -0000 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:13:57 +0100 From: Maciej Suszko To: "Paul B. Mahol" Message-ID: <20090312201357.73f6ba86@suszko.eu> In-Reply-To: <3a142e750903121053j7f1c4b08tbcd31f8a6d78fd52@mail.gmail.com> References: <49b94250.0c11660a.248d.ffffa80e@mx.google.com> <3a142e750903121053j7f1c4b08tbcd31f8a6d78fd52@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-portbld-freebsd7.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 6842656684151627980 X-Ovh-Remote: 62.61.57.118 () X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.20 (ns0.ovh.net) X-Spam-Check: DONE|H 0.5/N Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Saifi Khan , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: is there a laptop ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:40:41 -0000 "Paul B. Mahol" wrote: > On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: > > > >> Saifi Khan wrote: > >> > Hi all: > >> > > >> > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use > >> > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. > >> > > >> > Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced > >> > members would like to recommend wherein > >> > . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based) > >> > . Ethernet port > >> > . and ACPI > >> > work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ? > >> > >> I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried > >> the suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not > >> going to work. Everything else is working fine for me. > >> -- > >> regards, Maciej Suszko. > >> > > > > What is the wireless chipset of your machine ? > > On mine nx7300 it is broadcom one and works fine via ndis. > Suspend/resume works fine if second core is disabled and vesa is > loaded in kernel > (either via kldload or via custom kernel) > Firewire and bluetooth are supported and should work without problems. > Ethernet works via if_bfe; carbus, drm, sound works fine ... > In short everything is supported on UP kernel except winmodem. > > There are some bugs in BIOS asl which I fixed adding: > > acpi_dsdt_load="YES" > acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi.aml" > > in /boot/loader.conf > > /boot/acpi.aml is modified version of ASL which address "temperature > is absurd, ignored" > type of messages. > > > 8.0 CURRENT i386. On 7.0, 7.1 and 7-STABLE there is still a little bit annoying message in dmesg on my nx7300, but i it's harmless as I suppose: acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C) -- regards, Maciej Suszko.