From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 9 19:07:04 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 2131F16A5FE for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 19:07:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james@netinertia.co.uk) Received: from starbug.netinertia.co.uk (starbug.netinertia.co.uk [217.147.82.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5550643D5D for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 19:07:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@netinertia.co.uk) Received: from croydon.netinertia.co.uk ([82.69.247.45] helo=[10.1.0.82]) by starbug.netinertia.co.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FdXZN-0001ZI-UZ for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Tue, 09 May 2006 20:08:31 +0100 Message-ID: <4460E83A.8050301@netinertia.co.uk> Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 20:06:34 +0100 From: James O'Gorman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mobile List X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NetI-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 on the ThinkPad X60s X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 19:07:04 -0000 Forgot to Reply-all... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 on the ThinkPad X60s Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 19:50:04 +0100 From: James O'Gorman To: Chris Howells References: <4460DC22.6060803@netinertia.co.uk> <4460DF35.7010805@kde.org> Chris Howells wrote: > James O'Gorman wrote: > >> I just got my ThinkPad X60s (model 17045LG) and thought I'd post my >> results so people know what works and what doesn't. > > Thanks for the post; I'm currently running Linux on mine, mainly due to > the lack of wireless. Does the wireless work under Linux then? I was thinking about trying the Ubuntu live CD to see. >> * Dual-core CPU > > Does CPU speed scaling work with both cores? How do you check that? (This is my first non-Mac laptop...) > Also, does sound work? I've just got GNOME installed and I can't get esd to run at all, so I'm guessing not. I've tried kldloading every sound module there is! Unless it needs one that isn't built by default... >> It only works with >6.0 though. I tried installing 6.0-RELEASE and >> sysinstall couldn't even see the hard disk. 6.1-RC2 had no problem >> though. > > I guess the SATA controller is quite new. Looks that way. >> Wireless does not, of course, work, as it's the Intel 3945ABG chip. >> Can't even get it working using if_ndis at the moment :-( > > Annoying. I might have a go myself. Have you got it switched on with the > switch underneath? Definitely ;-) I've been flipping between Windows and FreeBSD and the wireless is fine in XP. >> Not sure about bluetooth at the moment as I've never actually set it up >> in FreeBSD before anyway, so I might play with that. > > The Bluetooth is simply attached to USB bus (universal serial bus bus?), > so it should work the same as pretty much any USB bluetooth device. I'll try and have a play with it later, but for now, the light under the screen is off for both wireless and Bluetooth... James