From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 5 00:24:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19AB16A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 00:24:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jes-2.demon.nl (allium-ursunum.demon.nl [212.238.161.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1156543D45 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 00:24:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jes@jes-2.demon.nl) Received: from localhost.demon.nl ([127.0.0.1] helo=jes-2.demon.nl) by jes-2.demon.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1BWVWh-0000nc-AO; Sat, 05 Jun 2004 09:23:35 +0200 Received: (from jes@localhost) by jes-2.demon.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i557NVrv003075; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 09:23:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jes) Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 09:23:31 +0200 From: Jim Segrave To: "M. Warner Losh" Message-ID: <20040605072331.GA3002@jes-2.demon.nl> References: <20040603210917.18556.qmail@istanbul.enderunix.org> <20040603230625.GB5852@jes-2.demon.nl> <20040603.204033.63053382.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040603.204033.63053382.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organisation: Demon Internet Netherlands cc: ofsen@enderunix.org cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sony vaio z1ra? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jes@jes-2.demon.nl List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 07:24:54 -0000 On Thu 03 Jun 2004 (20:40 -0600), M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20040603230625.GB5852@jes-2.demon.nl> > Jim Segrave writes: > : On Fri 04 Jun 2004 (00:09 +0300), Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > : > Hi, > : > > : > I am planning to buy sony vaio z1ra. Is there anyone here who successfully > : > booted and used freebsd on this notebook? Or maybe other models of sony > : > vaio may be suggested? > : > : I bought a Sony VAIO ZX1-SMP last Friday. I have 5.2 current running, > : with X, sound and Ethernet. Haven't tried wireless/bluetooth yet. So > : far, I think it's a great laptop > > ndis (project evil) works great with at least the wireless card I have > in my Z1WA. I haven't tried bluetooth either, since I've only the one > bluetooth device (the sony :-). I'm running a kernel from June 1 on mine. I have found a couple of odd things With a custom kernel, from the time loading begins until the login prompt, no messages appear on the display, which is a bit worrying, you don't know what's happening. I assume I did something wrong in my kernel conf, but I can't spot what it is Cardbus isn't currently working - from dmesg: cbb0: irq 9 at device 5.0 on pci2 cardbus0: on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 ... cbb0: CardBus card activation failed This also happened when trying a PCMCIA wireless card -- Jim Segrave jes@jes-2.demon.nl