Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:31:53 -0700 From: Russell Jackson <raj@csub.edu> To: Peter Hofer <ph@desktopbsd.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.x with Thinkpad X200 Message-ID: <48E52FB9.7020501@csub.edu> In-Reply-To: <200810021923.44056.ph@desktopbsd.net> References: <200810021923.44056.ph@desktopbsd.net>
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Peter Hofer wrote: > 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? > I posted recently about my experience with the t400. 7.0 doesn't boot at all with ACPI enabled which means you might as well forget about it. I had some luck with a 8-CURRENT snapshot from July; it booted, but the installer busted due to tar being broken. There was no August snapshot released for reasons I forget now, but a new September snapshot was released that I have yet to try. Unbuntu Hardy works pretty well[1] on it though which is what I've been running in the interim. [1] there are a few minor problems with xorg video that can be fixed by compiling a more recent xorg-intel driver. -- Russell A. Jackson <raj@csub.edu> Network Analyst California State University, Bakersfield Monday is an awful way to spend one seventh of your life.
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