Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:06:30 +0100 From: Matthias Schmidt <schmidtm@mathematik.uni-marburg.de> To: freebsd@meijome.net Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop do you recommend? Message-ID: <20060313170630.GA71135@staatsfeind.org> In-Reply-To: <20060313103240.ie1bevcdijs4coko@webmail.meijome.net> References: <20060313103240.ie1bevcdijs4coko@webmail.meijome.net>
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Hi, * freebsd@meijome.net wrote: > hi everyone, > I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work > WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: My personal favorite is an IBM Thinkpad Laptop. I have a Thinkpad T43 and T23 and both models run FreeBSD 6.0. Have a look at my Thinkpad+FreeBSD page: http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/ibm/ > ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) ACPI events, Suspend2Ram, acpi_ibm, SpeedStep work fine. > PATA / SATA with no problems The SATA controller (Intel ICH6) of the T43 works flawlessly. > all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, > touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course * Athereos Wireless (a/b/g) with ath(4) * Broadcom Ethernet with bge(4) * sound-chip with snd_ich(4) * ATI Radeoon with Xorg 6.8 (no DRM support at the moment) * Cardbus support works Matthias
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