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Date:      Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:08:03 -0700
From:      Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netbooks good for FreeBSD? (Lenovo Thinkpad S10-2 works)
Message-ID:  <4AE1F103.2020602@rawbw.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AD41FB8.2040309@rawbw.com>
References:  <4AD41FB8.2040309@rawbw.com>

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I am answering myself: I installed FreeBSD-80-RC2 on Lenovo Thinkpad S10-2.
Most everything works out of the box: it boots, finds network card, X 
with KDE4 works.
WiFi doesn't work: it came with Broadcom BCM94312MCGSG and it has to be 
replaced.
Webcam doesn't work: expected.

Yuri


Yuri wrote:
> I am thinking about buying a netbook. But I am afraid that WiFi 
> wouldn't be supported. And all my previous attempts to make NDIS to 
> work on FreeBSD failed.
> There is a page about Asus Eee: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee with 
> mixed results.
> Does this mean that Asus Eee are the best supported/known machines?
>
> I was thinking about Lenovo S10-2.
>
> Is there a hardware compatibility list for FreeBSD?
>
> Yuri
>




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