From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 25 17:22:40 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138661065670 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:22:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shaun.reiger1@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A988FC16 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:22:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk28 with SMTP id 28so2865093gxk.13 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:22:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type; bh=CW5pITdDs7JDbRPGp1yDEnCVxdKuCg5lTA7uDYGKD4Y=; b=wAGRAvdBJ5Wl//Hn99jhS01cvT8mIuqHJNRUlrvvqRayx39+IFl+an84Cv+b677f3F iCpuWDSg8y5k9liwhS67/S78rSFDQXL6BdMxOS0jLp42MXWyCQgjwSFOMxwqACkSV878 Xoou1ekkwyauvVml5R4fBZAbJb+LUlB4y73nw= Received: by 10.90.37.27 with SMTP id k27mr4638648agk.72.1311614558954; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:22:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skynet.local ([174.3.115.148]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q6sm5159069anp.9.2011.07.25.10.22.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:22:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E2DA659.3040704@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:22:33 -0600 From: Shaun Reiger User-Agent: Postbox 2.5.1 (Macintosh/20110718) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Markus Hoenicka References: <4E2D3B76.60906@gmail.com> <20110725123507.Horde.RFIIZNjz9kROLUbbAF_XZmA@webmail.df.eu> In-Reply-To: <20110725123507.Horde.RFIIZNjz9kROLUbbAF_XZmA@webmail.df.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptops & FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:22:40 -0000 Hi Markus, Thank you for the links and your laptop install story, I was glad to read that you where able to solve your boot/bios problems. I'm not sure if any one has tried installing FreeBSD on a Lenovo X1, but this was the laptop I was considering. It seems like most of hardware is intel. But I'm unsure of support for its hardware in the current BSD. Here is a link to the site, and if you know of any issues installing it please let me know. http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/webca/LenovoPortal/en_CA/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087¤t-category-id=F8EAB670D7F93AC90F0B9F6C58B8E7A2&action=init Cheers, Shaun > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Markus Hoenicka > 25 July, 2011 4:35 AM > > > Shaun Reiger was heard to say: > > > Hi Shaun, > > you may find some guidance here: > > http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ > > I also have, like probably many others on this list, a story to tell. > See these blog entries: > > http://www.mhoenicka.de/system-cgi/blog/index.php?itemid=2132 > > http://www.mhoenicka.de/system-cgi/blog/index.php?itemid=2133 > > regards, > Markus > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Shaun Reiger > 25 July, 2011 3:46 AM > > > Hi > > I'm looking at purchasing a new laptop and I'm wondering which > brand/model is recommended to run FreeBSD. I would hope to have a > fully functioning unit with few device driver issues if possible. > > I do realize that new hardware and FreeBSD are usually and issue, but > if 90% work and the rest comes later that would be great. > > Any guidance on this would be great. > > Cheers, > > Shaun > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"