Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 09:23:31 +0200 From: Jim Segrave <jes@jes-2.demon.nl> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sony vaio z1ra? Message-ID: <20040605072331.GA3002@jes-2.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040603.204033.63053382.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20040603210917.18556.qmail@istanbul.enderunix.org> <20040603230625.GB5852@jes-2.demon.nl> <20040603.204033.63053382.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Thu 03 Jun 2004 (20:40 -0600), M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20040603230625.GB5852@jes-2.demon.nl> > Jim Segrave <jes@jes-2.demon.nl> writes: > : On Fri 04 Jun 2004 (00:09 +0300), Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > : > Hi, > : > > : > I am planning to buy sony vaio z1ra. Is there anyone here who successfully > : > booted and used freebsd on this notebook? Or maybe other models of sony > : > vaio may be suggested? > : > : I bought a Sony VAIO ZX1-SMP last Friday. I have 5.2 current running, > : with X, sound and Ethernet. Haven't tried wireless/bluetooth yet. So > : far, I think it's a great laptop > > ndis (project evil) works great with at least the wireless card I have > in my Z1WA. I haven't tried bluetooth either, since I've only the one > bluetooth device (the sony :-). I'm running a kernel from June 1 on mine. I have found a couple of odd things With a custom kernel, from the time loading begins until the login prompt, no messages appear on the display, which is a bit worrying, you don't know what's happening. I assume I did something wrong in my kernel conf, but I can't spot what it is Cardbus isn't currently working - from dmesg: cbb0: <RF5C475 PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 9 at device 5.0 on pci2 cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 ... cbb0: CardBus card activation failed This also happened when trying a PCMCIA wireless card -- Jim Segrave jes@jes-2.demon.nl
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