Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:57:29 +1100 From: Felix Friedlander <felixphew0@gmail.com> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended laptop for FreeBSD 10.2 Xfce workstation? Message-ID: <D8B3E808-7FCF-44EB-B038-B7ABAB8C688E@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <56FB5951.90105@holgerdanske.com> References: <56FB5230.2070703@holgerdanske.com> <CC7E02E4-7B48-48F4-AEA3-CE22FD7C44D1@gmail.com> <56FB5951.90105@holgerdanske.com>
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--Apple-Mail=_E9561EF6-D4A0-4C26-B6AC-0694E0EE6FCF Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On 30 Mar 2016, at 15:42, David Christensen = <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote: >=20 >> Other than this, FreeBSD has played fairly OK with most laptop = hardware I=E2=80=99ve tried. >=20 > FreeBSD 10.2? What makes and models of laptops? Did it work OOTB, or = did you need to mess with it? >=20 My main experience has been with a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro, running 10.0 = and 10.1 (at first) and then 11-CURRENT when I attempted some driver = development. Everything worked out of the box except Wi-Fi, which I = eventually managed to get working with an ndis driver, but 10.1 broke = that so I switched to using an external dongle. I have tried it on 2 other machines, but I can=E2=80=99t remember the = specifics. One was perfect OOTB, and the other needed to use BIOS = instead of UEFI (because of those issues I was talking about) but was = otherwise fine. These were both with 10.1. --=20 Felix Friedlander <felixphew0@gmail.com> --Apple-Mail=_E9561EF6-D4A0-4C26-B6AC-0694E0EE6FCF Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7s Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 MIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAqCAMIACAQExCzAJBgUrDgMCGgUAMIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAQAAoIIK5jCCBPww ggPkoAMCAQICEFC1FgrWDmDapbYQtU9amcIwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQELBQAwdTELMAkGA1UEBhMCSUwx FjAUBgNVBAoTDVN0YXJ0Q29tIEx0ZC4xKTAnBgNVBAsTIFN0YXJ0Q29tIENlcnRpZmljYXRpb24g QXV0aG9yaXR5MSMwIQYDVQQDExpTdGFydENvbSBDbGFzcyAxIENsaWVudCBDQTAeFw0xNjAyMTkw ODUzMjBaFw0xNzAyMTkwODUzMjBaMEQxHTAbBgNVBAMMFGZlbGl4cGhldzBAZ21haWwuY29tMSMw IQYJKoZIhvcNAQkBFhRmZWxpeHBoZXcwQGdtYWlsLmNvbTCCASIwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADggEP ADCCAQoCggEBAKksJqpdmTZtut8/KlhgQrh3WYfX+slw1WMls7FTE8avFJfle4IoS0qV/UbD16dX IAMVxYJHEv5V8VCEch8p5BnwMbuwUg1mPMAnNM4iPJPt7jopgW2juwGjAlbhI7oGaHen9qQ+3Nrx yZGS6XffdhSRviMeyXY2GZisphcnBdAgJg0Wzk9oZCuL2OJH8HlFki9ih0ARqeuw6M8upOf9BFOl 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