Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:10:44 +0200 From: Benjamin Thelen <bt@ccgis.de> To: "Hakim Z. Singhji" <hakim.singhji@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad R51 & FreeBSD 4.10??? Message-ID: <413D7B14.1010000@ccgis.de> In-Reply-To: <4137D5B0.2060103@earthlink.net> References: <4137D5B0.2060103@earthlink.net>
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Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi All, > > I recently purchased an IBM Thinkpad R51 and I was looking to install > FreeBSD 4.10. Has anyone ever done this? Should I anticipate any > problems? Lastly I have never installed FreeBSD on a laptop before are > there things that I should know before I get started? Thanks in advance > for you help. > > HZS > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBN9WwlT9WV6TztkoRAol1AJ9CJU9EOAA976RAfYOQNI6v4tf/OgCgkyPC > rnr5z0hnkABA5QNVyNnQ1KM= > =n2Vy > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Hi, I have successfully installed 4.10 on a R31 and a T22. There is some info on the internet for older IBMs, but not much (see below). Sound does work. PCMCIA (16 bit!) should do, but I still could not test. USB is working well. Modem (winmodem) does more ore less *not* work. There is even a port (comms/ltmdm), providing a kernel-module, but I did not test it. To setup X-Window with KDE is easy. Overall, FreeBSD 4.10 on those IBMs, no Problem. http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/thinkpad/index.html http://groups.google.de/groups?q=freebsd+thinkpad&start=10&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=200206051237.00014.metrol_metrol.net%40ns.sol.net&rnum=20 http://groups.google.de/groups?q=freebsd+thinkpad&start=60&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=c6v6h3%24evs%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=61 I found this in GENERIC: # If you have a ThinkPAD, uncomment this along with the rest of the PCVT lines #options PCVT_SCANSET=2 # IBM keyboards are non-std I suppose R51 will be similar. Hope that helps. FreeBSD 5.x may be a better choice (ACPI, Cardbus,...whatever), but I still have no 5.x installation anywhere. Good luck, Ben
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