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From: Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de>
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Subject: Re: Best release for IBM laptop R51
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On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:20:47PM -0800, Graham North wrote:

> I am planning to load FreeBSD as a dual boot on new IBM laptop.
> The model is an R51 which comes with:

I also used to run FreeBSD 6.0 on a R51, the only difference I can see
is that my TP has a Radeon 9000. Everything should work and I would also
recommend 6.0, except for an annoying problem with wlan/wpa_supplicant:
the wlan connection will be dead from time to time (see PR kern/88793).

bye,
Uwe