Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:25:16 +0100 From: "Colin Brace" <cb@lim.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD or PCBSD? Message-ID: <aec9371b0801181425u795d1befxc52abba6016b5a58@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080118092711.t7725zf7xckwswck@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> References: <94136a2c0801180110v2e43ea2esc96393c4c3ca56f@mail.gmail.com> <47907A2B.601@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <20080118092711.t7725zf7xckwswck@newwebmail.jnielsen.net>
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On Jan 18, 2008 3:27 PM, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> wrote: > Quoting Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com>: > > I have had great success using PCBSD on various acers, I eventually > > got fed up with it being not quite identical to FreeBSD and I now > > have FreeBSD 6.2 on my current acer laptop (a 1680). > I was unable to even boot my Wife's Acer (an Aspire 5520) with FreeBSD > 6.3-pre or 7.0-pre. I'm also pretty sure the Acer wireless is NOT > supported by any native drivers; FWIW, my Acer Aspire 5500Z has Intel 2200 wireless chipset which is supported by FreeBSD and runs FreeBSD and PC-BSD fine. Sounds like Acer laptops don't all have the same wireless NIC... -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl
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