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From: Dan Kilbourne <bsd-lists@netophilia.net>
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NathanKelly31@aol.com extolled:
> hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that 
> is available to purchase???


I can tell you that my Dell C640 worked right out of the box. Xorg
-configure got all my X stuff correct (I just needed to set default
color depth to my personal preference). Even my wireless NIC works
immediately with a "dhclient wi0." The only option I needed to add to
the kernel to get everything working was "device sound"

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Dan