Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:22:10 -0500 From: Brian Callahan <korszca@gmail.com> To: James Phillips <anti_spam256@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS? Message-ID: <AANLkTimwoSm=%2B7bgxdwKstZ4g30Qu7xUoQzyV=V_hrX-@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <814349.16470.qm@web120703.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <20110220120035.2C8A910656BD@hub.freebsd.org> <814349.16470.qm@web120703.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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<snip> > > After deciding I could not really buy a computer locally, I ordered my la= test machine from "Freedom Included, Inc" from in the US. > http://freedomincluded.com/product/lemote-yeeloong/ > > It is a MIPS-based subnotebook shipping with gNewSense (Linux distro). I = don't think it is what the OP was looking for since it won't even run Windo= ws without qemu (3hour+ compile for all targets). It is also a relatively s= mall machine (netbook size). I am also not sure if the wireless would be su= pported in freeBSD. > freedomincluded@freedomincluded:~$ lsusb > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187B Wir= eless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter > Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 mult= icard reader > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub > (Camera not listed) > > Regards, > > James Phillips I highly doubt the OP wants a Yeeloong. I have two (and cannot recommend Dan enough, he's a very cool guy) and I love them, both running OpenBSD. They don't run FreeBSD, kfreebsd-yeeloong notwithstanding (it was a GSoC project), however the wireless would work just fine, it's a urtw(4), which has been supported since 8.0. Actually, everything on the computer *would* work if FreeBSD was ported to it, but this is a non-trivial task and simply isn't going to happen until there are people willing to make it happen. With that said, the Yeeloong is not a good recommendation for anyone, with the exception of someone who wants to buy a nascent, possibly (hopefully) emerging architecture, to play with or to port software. Or someone who cares that much about free software and doesn't care about the limitations of the architecture. This isn't what the OP wants. ~Brian
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