Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 15:26:13 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about hardware support Message-ID: <20111207142613.GA3142@tinyCurrent> In-Reply-To: <4EDF620B.9030706@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4EDEFACB.3000809@gmail.com> <4EDF620B.9030706@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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El día Wednesday, December 07, 2011 a las 12:54:35PM +0000, Matthew Seaman escribió: > Drivers in FreeBSD are generally described in terms of the specific > components (motherboard chipset, NIC, SATA controller, etc. etc.) rather > than in terms of a specific whole machine produced by a manufacturer. > > Laptops are particularly tricky in this regard, and if no-one else has > reported on your particular model, generally the best procedure is to > try booting the device using a USB or CD-Rom image, and see what does > and doesn't work. One good method is to let it boot a recent Knoppix DVD and see what chips it 'sees'; it will not touch the installed OS; matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11 | UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2 | FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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