Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:23:44 +0200 From: Peter Hofer <ph@desktopbsd.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 7.x with Thinkpad X200 Message-ID: <200810021923.44056.ph@desktopbsd.net>
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Hello everyone, I consider buying a Lenovo IBM Thinkpad X200 (Montevina) and would like to run FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 (or for now, RELENG_7) on it. So far, I have not been able to find any information on running FreeBSD on this particular laptop, only a thread about using it with OpenBSD from the misc@openbsd.org mailing list (with dmesg): http://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg66846.html Does anyone have experience with FreeBSD on this laptop? (It seems the X200 and T400 are not so different, so I would appreciate comments from T400 owners as well!) I am particularly interested in the following: 1. Will the on-board 10/100/1000 Ethernet card work with em(4)? According to the openbsd-misc post mentioned earlier, it is an 82567LM chip, which is not listed explicitly in the manual page. Although I would prefer to use em(4), Intel itself also provides a driver binary for FreeBSD 7.x, has anyone tried it? 2. As far as I know, no driver is available for the Intel 5100 and Intel 5300 wireless LAN adapters, but Lenovo also offers another adapter named "ThinkPad 11b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Express Adapter III". In the past, similar adapters had an Atheros chip. Should I expect this adapter to be supported by ath(4) or go for an ExpressCard or USB solution instead? 3. Will SpeedStep work with cpufreq/powerd? (According to a follow-up to the openbsd-misc post, a patch is required to make it work on OpenBSD.) Also, will suspend/resume work? 4. This may depend more on xf86-video-intel than on FreeBSD: Can the desktop be easily cloned or extended to an additional display device connected via VGA? This is very important to me since I plan on using the laptop for presentations too. 5. Can I expect the components of the X200 UltraBase docking station to work out of the box, in particular a UltraBay slim optical drive, the USB ports, the DisplayPort and the Ethernet connector? Thank you very much! Best regards, Peter Hofer
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