From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 9 15:15:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE1716A419 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:15:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dokas@oitsec.umn.edu) Received: from mail.oitsec.umn.edu (mail.oitsec.umn.edu [128.101.238.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74AA943D70 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:15:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dokas@oitsec.umn.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.oitsec.umn.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A4B1CC066; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:15:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail.oitsec.umn.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.oitsec.umn.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 69597-05; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:15:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from shoggoth.oitsec.umn.edu (shoggoth.oitsec.umn.edu [160.94.247.195]) by mail.oitsec.umn.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 806291CC06C; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:15:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:15:08 -0500 From: Paul Dokas To: Eric Anderson Message-Id: <20060609101508.40307089.dokas@oitsec.umn.edu> In-Reply-To: <4489836D.6020302@centtech.com> References: <200606091328.k59DSThD012167@nic-naa.net> <4489836D.6020302@centtech.com> Organization: OIT Security and Assurance, University of Minnesota X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) X-Discordia: fnord Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at oitsec.umn.edu Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New or used laptop recommendation(s) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dokas@oitsec.umn.edu List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:15:13 -0000 On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:19:25 -0500 Eric Anderson wrote: > I currently have a Latitude D820 (with the wuxga screen), and it's awesome. I have one of these too and can agree that it's a very nice machine. However, I've got a few nits. + The audio chipset isn't found under FreeBSD 6.1. If anyone knows how to get the Sigmatel STAC9200 to probe, I'd love to hear about it. + There are no drivers (yet) for the optional Intel 3945abg wireless. There is a driver in OpenBSD that will hopefully be ported over soon. + I'm having some odd problems getting Cardbus wireless cards to work. They act mostly as expected, but dhclient refuses to associate with any AP. If I ifconfig ath0 by hand, it associated just fine. The problem is similar to this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-April/010351.html But, like I said earlier, overall I do like the Latitude D820 Paul -- Paul Dokas dokas at oitsec.umn.edu ====================================================================== Don Juan Matus: "an enigma wrapped in mystery wrapped in a tortilla."