From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 4 17:26:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4CDA16A473 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:26:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=492b6fecdfee27bfd959b95d4e9869d25726e15e=601=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal3.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:14:3::8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF0013C4CE for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:26:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=492b6fecdfee27bfd959b95d4e9869d25726e15e=601=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP (SSL) id KTE94906; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:26:06 -0800 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 0DCD34500E; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:26:07 -0800 (PST) To: Ivan Vanney In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:47:19 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1202145967_67831P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:26:07 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20080204172607.0DCD34500E@ptavv.es.net> X-Sender-IP: 198.128.4.29 X-Sender-Domain: es.net X-Recipent: ;; X-Sender: X-To_Name: Ivan Vanney X-To_Domain: hotmail.com X-To: Ivan Vanney X-To_Email: elderechodematar@hotmail.com X-To_Alias: elderechodematar Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lenovo 3000 c200 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:26:10 -0000 --==_Exmh_1202145967_67831P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > From: Ivan Vanney > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 10:47:19 +0200 > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > > Hi, maybe itsn't the place to ask but in the website I just found this > mailing list, im planning to install a stable version of FreeBSD in my > laptop Lenovo, but I don't know if ill have problems with the > hardware, specially the wireless card, sound and touchpad mouse. > > This is the hardware: Intel Centrino® Duo mobile technology on selected > models: > > Intel Centrino 2 Duo processor family > Intel 945GM chipset > Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection > > Ill need to recompile kernel to get it working? > thank you for ur help. Please try to enter a return on occasion. These long, long lines are a pain. (Yes, mailers may wrap what you type, but they send it a one long line of test, contrary to the RFC which recommends keeping mail lines (plain text ones) to 72 characters. You are going to have a few problems, I fear. Support for the Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG is in its very early stages and is a bit rough, but all reports. (It uses if_wpi.) Intel 945GM support is reasonable, but it is also fairly new and there have been a few problem reports on some systems. I'd suggest i386 rather then amd64 for the moment. There are too many ports that are not yet 64-bit clean, although things ae getting better fairly quickly. While it is not released at this time, you really want to run FreeBSD V7.0 on such a laptop. It is very near ready for release and should be available by the end of the month. That said, I'd get the latest 7.0 release candidate rather than fight with 6.3, the latest release of that version. This is especially for the wireless card, but many laptop features are better with 7.0. You will have to load the wpi until/unless you rebuild the kernel as it is not yet part of the GENERIC kernel on the CD, but that is a one-liner. I should warn you that you will not be able to suspend the system. That is not yeat supported for SMP systems. (Of course you could disable SMP but that is a bit excessive.) The 7.0-RC is on the FreeBSD ftp server at: You will want disc1, at very least. The other 2 CDs contain pre-compiled packages which I never use. I always prefer to build from scratch, but using packages is certainly faster than building. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1202145967_67831P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFHp0qukn3rs5h7N1ERAmhgAJoCSM8nDUVzG+TeE/Bd4XPROIZWMwCfbnT5 3DTxGRa0coVSkIlNJOdDrc4= =nKvN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1202145967_67831P--