From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 23 16:04:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F4D106568D for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:04:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter.piggybox@virgin.net) Received: from queueout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (queueout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D1A78FC12 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:04:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from know-smtpout-4.server.virginmedia.net ([62.254.123.4]) by mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vM.7.08.04.00 201-2186-134-20080326) with ESMTP id <20090823153303.HPXN6611.mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@know-smtpout-4.server.virginmedia.net>; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:33:03 +0100 Received: from [81.105.210.39] (helo=ideapad.piggybox) by know-smtpout-4.server.virginmedia.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MfF43-00038y-Na; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:33:03 +0100 Received: from ideapad.piggybox (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ideapad.piggybox (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7NEW9Ln001139; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:32:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from peter@ideapad.piggybox) Received: (from peter@localhost) by ideapad.piggybox (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n7NEW9aK001138; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:32:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:32:09 +0100 From: Peter Harrison To: Steve Franks Message-ID: <20090823143209.GA1124@ideapad.piggybox> Mail-Followup-To: Steve Franks , Randall Wood , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4A8C41B8.8080306@hdk5.net> <4A8C4E58.7030103@otenet.gr> <20090819210126.GA7938@koala> <539c60b90908191600q6a9cc65dm532490a2a3946faf@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <539c60b90908191600q6a9cc65dm532490a2a3946faf@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=sq0BKvcKkRmLkiRm4wcA:9 a=daxlBtK3mWPEqqyqJoUA:7 a=F4pW4IBKMSsvL7B6hty-s7w5Zl8A:4 a=0yjZ7Z9cm14A:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 Cc: Randall Wood , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netbooks for freebsd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:04:21 -0000 Wednesday, 19 August 2009 at 16:00:25 -0700, Steve Franks said: > >> Al Plant wrote: > >> > Jeff Hamann wrote: > >> >> I would like to try some experimental software on a netbook. Can > >> >> somebody recommend a netbook that can do FreeBSD. > > I'm displeased with my Lenovo S10. On the upside, all the hardware > worked on 7.2 out of the box, after I swapped the internal broadcom > wifi for a highpower atheros. The ACPI is a real nightmare on it, > however. dmesg is constantly full of acpi barfs, and it hangs on > shutdown, and won't suspend, which is pretty much a requirement for a > notebook at my house. Tried all the standard lenovo acpi hacks, but > no luck. I'm running 7.2 release on an s10e. The acpi is a problem - but David Naylor on the acpi@ list gave me a patch which eliminated most of the errors. Let me know if you're interested and I'll ping it over (or try the acpi list to see if there's an update). Haven't tried suspend-resume, but I am running the broadcom wireless successfully with ndis. Peter Harrison. > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"