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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2007 11:17:35 +0300
From:      "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <almarrie@gmail.com>
To:        "Charles Trevor" <ct.lists@qgsltd.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recommended laptops for FreeBSD 6.x ...
Message-ID:  <499c70c0705140117t429103afl8b97e6bd8f9d4794@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46481AB7.4040401@qgsltd.co.uk>
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On 5/14/07, Charles Trevor <ct.lists@qgsltd.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >>
> >> I have a three year old 2ghz Toshiba Satellite Pro A10 that is running
> >> FBSD 6.2 very well. Everything worked out of the box with no tweaking at
> >> all. I'm very happy  with it..
> >>
> >> Charlie
> >
> > What Wlan chip does it have?
> > No acpi errors? does it have dual cpu or single cpu?
> >
> >
>
> The CPU is a single core cpu that dmesg says is a "Mobile Intel(R)
> Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz". I have no ACPI error that I am aware of,
> but havent played with suspend and resume etc.
>
> I dont recall what brand the wlan chip is but it uses a Lucent chipset.
> It uses the wi0 driver and was the mini pci card supplied by Toshiba.
> Dmesg  says;
>
> wi0: <TOSHIBA Wireless LAN Card> at port 0xc000-0xc03f irq 11 function 0
> config 1 on pccard0
> wi0: using Lucent Embedded WaveLAN/IEEE
> wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station (8.10.1)
>
> HTH
>
> Charlie

That's alright, but I don't think we are going to look for single core
cpu anymore these days, maybe just for tabletpc to save power?


-- 
Regards,

-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Arab Portal
http://www.WeArab.Net/



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