From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 14 08:17:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F05416A404 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 08:17:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.248]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF93213C45D for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 08:17:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d23so381470and for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 01:17:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CGLL9eV08f712xrDuwYN3S7uEFM6Pazl5XW05KUJc5MLRxsA3YlzaEkBatNob5ZSZ9CZr6sxJJJxtoaVa81sAs+BD8q7Uo9DthepByiQI+5yiOBtO4jAFOmOuck95ZBfAa12lg6KIe4WiA1tVwc+QDcspTyiSMeEcLgKfjosmd8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LibMqP3i/aQtHHfFlOWCfWC0SKgE48GocX2j6MWd6F+v5b/zOQMQqQ300jW3wFScjWyAsOlrRDJxvkn2vnEljrvXO7LXgRsayxZ0bqmSdRwYyEdbgpsILM9ksYL7/7QhRumhuAncPM1ylqGMG+rBFd+sP8uS6UIc7FCaewpj+uc= Received: by 10.100.46.19 with SMTP id t19mr4251670ant.1179130656021; Mon, 14 May 2007 01:17:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.9.14 with HTTP; Mon, 14 May 2007 01:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <499c70c0705140117t429103afl8b97e6bd8f9d4794@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:17:35 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" To: "Charles Trevor" In-Reply-To: <46481AB7.4040401@qgsltd.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <001601c793a5$106c5310$6601a8c0@KGISH> <20070511175144.F69508@volatile.chemikals.org> <200705111520.17774.fcash@ocis.net> <46481352.7010602@qgsltd.co.uk> <499c70c0705140059h48181510n89737ff302814df6@mail.gmail.com> <46481AB7.4040401@qgsltd.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended laptops for FreeBSD 6.x ... 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, 14 May 2007 08:17:37 -0000 On 5/14/07, Charles Trevor wrote: > > >> > >> I have a three year old 2ghz Toshiba Satellite Pro A10 that is running > >> FBSD 6.2 very well. Everything worked out of the box with no tweaking at > >> all. I'm very happy with it.. > >> > >> Charlie > > > > What Wlan chip does it have? > > No acpi errors? does it have dual cpu or single cpu? > > > > > > The CPU is a single core cpu that dmesg says is a "Mobile Intel(R) > Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz". I have no ACPI error that I am aware of, > but havent played with suspend and resume etc. > > I dont recall what brand the wlan chip is but it uses a Lucent chipset. > It uses the wi0 driver and was the mini pci card supplied by Toshiba. > Dmesg says; > > wi0: at port 0xc000-0xc03f irq 11 function 0 > config 1 on pccard0 > wi0: using Lucent Embedded WaveLAN/IEEE > wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station (8.10.1) > > HTH > > Charlie That's alright, but I don't think we are going to look for single core cpu anymore these days, maybe just for tabletpc to save power? -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/