Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:42:45 -0500 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop do you recommend? Message-ID: <20060314204245.GB1573@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20060314160031.8293145041@ptavv.es.net> References: <20060314060732.GA2435@holestein.holy.cow> <20060314160031.8293145041@ptavv.es.net>
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in message <20060314160031.8293145041@ptavv.es.net>, wrote Kevin Oberman thusly... > > > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:07:32 -0500 > > From: Parv <parv@pair.com> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > > > in message <20060314113412.3470fde5@localhost>, > > wrote Norberto Meijome thusly... > > > > > > On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 > > > freebsd@meijome.net wrote: > > > > > > > I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known > > > > to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: > > > > > > > > ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) > > > > PATA / SATA with no problems > > > > I don't think Thinkpad has [SP]ATA things (yet). > > >From my T43: > atapci0: <Intel ICH6 SATA150 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x18c0-0x18cf at device 31.2 on pci0 > Since the drives are still PATA, I assume it uses a SATA/PATA chip > for the internal drives, but it may make SATA available to a > docking station. Thanks for the correction. > > > > all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, ... > > If you can, try to get a laptop either without a 802.11g (so > > that you can decide which one to buy) or buy one supported by > > ath driver. I have T42 w/ Intel 2200BG card, and it using w/ > > iwi driver (net/iwi-firmware port). Here, connected w/ Linksys > > WRT54G wireless router/switch/AP, iwi interface|driver needs to > > be reset just about every two hours (when i start getting "TKIP > > ICV mismatch on decrypt" message. > > iwi (and its kin-folk) have been betting heavy work in HEAD over > the past week or two and, hopefully, things will improve. I think i did read something about that. I hope the changes will be show in 6-STABLE, assuming the work will finish well before 7 branch is tagged as STABLE. > OTOH, I have two colleagues using this card with Windows and they > complain that it locks up periodically and they have to disable > and enable it to get it back, so this may not be just a FreeBSD > thing. I have not personally experienced problems in Windows for whatever length i was using that OS. Reading about others' trouble (in Windows) dose give me some solace. > There is also fairly new firmware out (V3.0) which MAY fix some of > these problems. That would be swell. - Parv --
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