From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 10:45:38 2012 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 E0764106564A for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:45:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kayasaman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com (mail-wi0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725E68FC0A for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn14 with SMTP id hn14so441532wib.13 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:45:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=aAyJjWQCCccGot/PYbUnvb08NwkvIzUZlqimMAQkKDo=; b=ufKZH9HVuNkHgW3qwpFA4J6j7EvRySkO4nHMNwKm0q+AVfDS2F6eg5F0bKIIB5Lq1b zUmT/dKdDrTxDShjzfKxPr7k4zCtd6Y/sSED1c8ntZM1lywHlsx439aPBb0iAKPFQB5z r9lmPytXQMOROBw7O1OleX1VttoHjnZw/1Tn8= Received: by 10.180.93.132 with SMTP id cu4mr3149662wib.9.1327574737401; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:45:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.82] (81-178-2-118.dsl.pipex.com. [81.178.2.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n3sm11213461wiz.9.2012.01.26.02.45.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:45:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F212EC2.6040102@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:45:22 +0000 From: Kaya Saman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111125 Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F20B15F.10301@gmail.com> <4F20B2F9.5010304@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4F20B2F9.5010304@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 on Lenovo X200 what works? 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: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:45:39 -0000 On 01/26/2012 01:57 AM, Da Rock wrote: > Despite having similar hardware, you're only real best bet is to "suck > it and see". Try installing and seeing what you can get to work > (dmesg, pciconf -lv, usbconfig, kldload modules, questions here, etc). > > I've had mixed success with laptops (they're just about all I have as > a desktop), and about my only problems have been with wifi- though > that has mostly disappeared with Adrian's excellent work. I will have a go as Salix (which is on there now isn't cutting it and spent all night trying to get things in order but didn't :( Tested the live FBSD9 disk in the meantime and the wireless gets detected out of the box. As long as I get wifi and HD video and sound coming out of the headphone socket I will be fine.... I'm running 8.2 on an X200. For the most part everything works. My main complaint is that the sound is very quiet, and I haven't found the setting to fix that. Video and wifi work fine. The kernel sees the camera and the thumb reader but I haven't looked for applications that use them. Ok this sounds promising - for wifi see above! App for camera is Googletalk if supported on Firefox 9, and PAM for the figureprint reader. Just thinkin about WWAN now but there was a post floating around about 3G modems so I might just be in luck.... not that I've ever used WiMax before. Thanks for the replies guys :-) Regards, Kaya