From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 11 11:30:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E63916A41F for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:30:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul@xk7.net) Received: from mra01.ch.as12513.net (mra01.ch.as12513.net [82.153.252.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BDE43D46 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:30:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul@xk7.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mra01.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C854728C98C for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:29:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mra01.ch.as12513.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra01.ch.as12513.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05926-01-39 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:29:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kryten.xk7.net (unknown [81.168.90.101]) by mra01.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C3A28C95B for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:29:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by kryten.xk7.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1B49A17040; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:27:33 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:27:33 +0000 From: Paul Waring To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051111112733.GB47410@kryten.xk7.net> References: <20051111102212.GA47410@kryten.xk7.net> <57416b300511110251g124482dg5fd1c86438268744@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <57416b300511110251g124482dg5fd1c86438268744@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk Subject: Re: Better laptop support in 6.0? 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: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:30:01 -0000 On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:51:15AM -0800, Peter Clutton wrote: > I can't comment on your previous problems, as I've got FreeBSD 5.4 > running on a state of the art Sony vaio laptop, I use it for > everything. Not sure what could be causing the CDs not to work, > without error messages, but by that description it may not have been > OS related. As far as I remember, the CDs wouldn't even boot into the install process at one point. They worked fine on another machine, and other installation CDs for things like NetBSD worked, so I think it probably was OS related. Perhaps FreeBSD is just missing support for my laptop's hardware, but I'm surprised that other things worked. > One of the focuses was on Wireless > support aswell, if you had any trouble with that. Wireless support would be useful, but I'm generally plugged into a wired ethernet network so it's not of huge importance. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk