Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:27:34 +0200 From: Maciej Milewski <milu@dat.pl> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Cc: Alex <alex323@gmail.com>, frank.wissmann41@web.de Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Lenovo G550 Message-ID: <201004221127.34326.milu@dat.pl> In-Reply-To: <20100421162207.758f456d@gmail.com> References: <4BCF4FC2.90507@web.de> <20100421162207.758f456d@gmail.com>
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Dnia =B6roda, 21 kwietnia 2010 o 22:22:07 Alex napisa=B3(a): > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:19:30 +0200 >=20 > Frank Wi=DFmann <frank.wissmann41@web.de> wrote: > > Hello, list! > > Does anybody have any experience with the combination mentioned in > > the subject? I like to buy one, but I'm insecure about how they work > > together. Any useful comments about it are thankfully appreciated. >=20 > I don't have the G550, but I do have the X200-CTO. I am using > 8.0-RELEASE and it seems to be fine, other than a few slight issues. > There is no speaker sound (only headphones), you need to use ndis for > the wireless driver, and sleep/resume/hibernate (etc) do not work. I have R400 but some chips are common in these laptops. Alex, for sound try this: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D12910 Wireless cards can be different in the same model. I think most popular for= =20 Lenovo are Broadcom and Intel. My is Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100AGN so iwn driver works fine. =46rom what is on http://www.lapspecs.com/wiki/lenovo+g550 it looks that it= =20 should be supported but without having it running you can't be sure. There = are=20 many examples where the same model can have totally different parts inside. Maciek
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