Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:19:47 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions? Message-ID: <1217578788.78925.17.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <e71790db0807311626n3096b939h8b745f58a3e70e82@mail.gmail.com> References: <1216910072.2251.8.camel@jill.exit.com> <op.uevchzc99aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <C5BCB173-CB87-4739-99CB-74CF7E76FBC4@ixsystems.com> <86y73j341e.fsf@ds4.des.no> <B057C10B-1269-4295-AA90-24E7AE9D9F08@bnc.net> <86bq0ftjf6.fsf@ds4.des.no> <8C2BF4B9-14CD-40EA-B22E-DBB7060BFE46@bnc.net> <e71790db0807301745i60747da1vdbeb5650421b522f@mail.gmail.com> <1217505964.78925.12.camel@localhost> <e71790db0807311626n3096b939h8b745f58a3e70e82@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-wNODDrESJ36Wk0MKLW+A Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 20:26 -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> wro= te: > > > > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:45 -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > >> Please define "comfortable". I've been running FreeBSD 7.0 pretty > >> comfortably on my HP nx6320 for several months now. I never attempted > >> to use neither Bluetooth nor the fingerprint reader, so I don't miss > >> them. The only real drawback I've found was that the memory card > >> reader does not work. I also ran 8.0-CURRENT on a HP 6910p because 7.0 > >> did not support the WI-FI card. >=20 > > Another happy BSD user on HP - nc6320 this time though. intel(4x) > > graphics, wpi(4) wifi, bge(4) networking, fwochi(4) firewire, serial > > port, plenty of USB ports. Even the fingerprint scanner works > > (security/libfprint). > > I don't use bluetooth or the card reader, so cannot comment on them. > > > > The one down side of my HP laptop is the HP BIOS refuses to start up > > with a different wifi card installed - I'd quite like to use an ath(4) > > based card.. >=20 > Do you have an up-to-date BIOS? I had some problems booting from USB > that I could solve using the latest BIOS version. >=20 Yes, latest BIOS. If you search through the BIOS file, it is fairly easy to find the list of 'approved' HP vendor/device ids that it will allow to be put in the mini pci-e slot and still boot up (there are only 4 distinct device ids defined in the BIOS). I've considered just manually editing it to replace one of the device ids with my replacement card, but I fear I would probably brick the laptop! Tom --=-wNODDrESJ36Wk0MKLW+A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkiSxyAACgkQlcRvFfyds/cnDwCeOSoX0KWOIKipVNIgqYINriCT HbEAoJYnrEzsPmHb78T/mlgUV++AZDOj =/RIO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-wNODDrESJ36Wk0MKLW+A--
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