From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 23:26:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB0A1065676 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:26:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92218FC13 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:26:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id q2so485804uge.37 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:26:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; 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; bh=skuhZ0n09twp2Rp5b+CDBlK1GhU0hj6X57Z3TW+QwDQ=; b=uHsKa06gwEeX220JJ/p19IclSCrx77fTpwTbn94oFTzJN3FAUdo8zd/P+5eUjChw8r FGXjLbUMv9oBtbt2qW73Ul3Ad1obsGNGx/Hl0u67B+6tLbTYSjrRVihwX/aAh14UILdW zuRnxlQhfWsll0C8f/D6D125xAZEPzpFxjBIo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=DLrn+SSNFeuRGN16LaWfONiCDKidqWoo6cBSDgc4g9ffcADBbIkzRfWT/qiPbWyQNH YQEPjurpYHiIJNVK5RKP3Gc8EWpODaPrH+L9dXoxoLN1hEPAy8JcGmlZXk98ix0HTDC0 OrOPoOW0XBczfwyfqHfpNWZ2jCfWDScL94N8c= Received: by 10.67.116.15 with SMTP id t15mr3129329ugm.53.1217546789642; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:26:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.234.1 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:26:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:26:29 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" To: "Tom Evans" In-Reply-To: <1217505964.78925.12.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1216910072.2251.8.camel@jill.exit.com> <86y73j341e.fsf@ds4.des.no> <86bq0ftjf6.fsf@ds4.des.no> <8C2BF4B9-14CD-40EA-B22E-DBB7060BFE46@bnc.net> <1217505964.78925.12.camel@localhost> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:26:31 -0000 On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Tom Evans wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:45 -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: >> Please define "comfortable". I've been running FreeBSD 7.0 pretty >> comfortably on my HP nx6320 for several months now. I never attempted >> to use neither Bluetooth nor the fingerprint reader, so I don't miss >> them. The only real drawback I've found was that the memory card >> reader does not work. I also ran 8.0-CURRENT on a HP 6910p because 7.0 >> did not support the WI-FI card. > Another happy BSD user on HP - nc6320 this time though. intel(4x) > graphics, wpi(4) wifi, bge(4) networking, fwochi(4) firewire, serial > port, plenty of USB ports. Even the fingerprint scanner works > (security/libfprint). > I don't use bluetooth or the card reader, so cannot comment on them. > > The one down side of my HP laptop is the HP BIOS refuses to start up > with a different wifi card installed - I'd quite like to use an ath(4) > based card.. Do you have an up-to-date BIOS? I had some problems booting from USB that I could solve using the latest BIOS version. -- If you think things can't get worse it's probably only because you lack sufficient imagination.