From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 24 03:45:52 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 EA408106566B for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:45:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from guam10.hdk5.net (guam10.hdk5.net [66.180.132.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD0888FC12 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mohawk7.intra.net (unknown [66.180.149.18]) by guam10.hdk5.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D531CC1A; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:45:50 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <4B0B56EE.2080102@hdk5.net> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:45:50 -1000 From: Al Plant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 FreeBSD/i386 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Poland References: <20091123225410.GA50804@thought.org> <08E02FC2-BCEF-4234-B465-4E88115BAF5D@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <08E02FC2-BCEF-4234-B465-4E88115BAF5D@polands.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: hp 10-in mini? 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: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:45:53 -0000 Doug Poland wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2009, at 16:54, Gary Kline wrote: > >> gang, >> >> I rarely glance at any come-on advertisement, but I just got >> one by amazon that has a $380 HP Mini 10" computer for $200. >> >> I want to use something about this size for my type-and-speech >> computer. I'm thinking more of the ASUS 9" notebook. What >> are people's thoughts on this? >> >> (Yes, this is still an attempt to drive sales in a bad >> downturn. etc. Still, altho these tiny computers many be >> manufactured in the same plant by the same corporation, it may >> not make any difference.) >> >> anybody on-list who cares to share? >> >> gary >> > My wife has one of these running XP. I've booted and run both > 7.1-RELEASE and 8.0-RC2 from external USB. It's a nice little piece of > hardware. Unfortunately, the wireless chipset was not recognized. I did > not pursue it any further._______________________________________________ > 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" > Aloha, The chipset is a Broadcom and I think there maybe a driver now. BCM4312 is the one in mine. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: noc@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol