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From: Felix Friedlander In-Reply-To: <56FB5951.90105@holgerdanske.com> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:57:29 +1100 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: References: <56FB5230.2070703@holgerdanske.com> <56FB5951.90105@holgerdanske.com> To: David Christensen X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 06:57:35 -0000 --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 = 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. 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