From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 18:23:05 2010 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 8AB7D106567A for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 18:23:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from april.london.02.net (april.london.02.net [87.194.255.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25B298FC17 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 18:23:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muji2.config (93.97.24.219) by april.london.02.net (8.5.124.10) id 4C98C91F004D73A8 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 19:23:02 +0100 Message-ID: <4CAA1B86.6010906@onetel.com> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:23:02 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100924 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201010050055.21381.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <201010050055.21381.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Which OS for notebook 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: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:23:05 -0000 On 10/04/10 17:55, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Monday 04 October 2010 12:11:30 Leandro F Silva wrote: >> >> Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? >> Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. > > there is no general answer. > > You must select an individual model first and see then if the hardware is supported. > > I use normally FreeBSD 7 or 8 but I installed Fedora on a single machine as there is no driver for the LAN available in FreeBSD. > > If I remember right, wireless was not a problem there. > > So, choose a model and ask then again. > > Ok, I have FreeBSD 7 running on an older Fujitsu Lifebook. 8.0 gave me problems with USB. > > Erich > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I would rather find a machine which will run FreeBSD if possible. If possible go to a laptop shop with a bootable USB stick (memstick.img) and try booting different machines. Collect dmesg and pciconf output to study at your leisure. I have a HP nc6320 which runs 8.* fine except for the card reader and sleep/resume functions. chris