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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 13:48:31 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: advice for buying a laptop
From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>
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On Thu, June 9, 2016 1:43 pm, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote:
>
> Valeri Galtsev writes:
>
>> Intel WiFi adapters with model numbers 6xxx and 7xxx require some
>> additions/modifications to wireless stack on FreeBSD. These adapters
>> will
>> not work under FreeBSD.
>
> If you're reading this message, then you can be absolutely certain that
> the Intel Centrino 6205 chip---the kind shipped in the exact make and
> model of the laptop the OP is interested in---works just fine with
> FreeBSD. The 10.1-RELEASE installer automatically detected and
> configured it.
>

Then, stealing someone's phrase, it should have been pilot's error on my
side.

Back to the drawing board. My apologies, everybody, please, ignore what
I've said about Intel 6xxx adapters.

Valeri

> --
>
> ::  Brandon J. Wandersee
> ::  brandon.wandersee@gmail.com
> ::  --------------------------------------------------
> ::  'The best design is as little design as possible.'
> ::  --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------
>


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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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