Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:13:57 +0100 From: Maciej Suszko <maciej@suszko.eu> To: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: is there a laptop ? Message-ID: <20090312201357.73f6ba86@suszko.eu> In-Reply-To: <3a142e750903121053j7f1c4b08tbcd31f8a6d78fd52@mail.gmail.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903100612580.9131@localhost> <49b94250.0c11660a.248d.ffffa80e@mx.google.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903122304190.12024@localhost> <3a142e750903121053j7f1c4b08tbcd31f8a6d78fd52@mail.gmail.com>
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"Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: > > > >> Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org> wrote: > >> > Hi all: > >> > > >> > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use > >> > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. > >> > > >> > Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced > >> > members would like to recommend wherein > >> > . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based) > >> > . Ethernet port > >> > . and ACPI > >> > work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ? > >> > >> I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried > >> the suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not > >> going to work. Everything else is working fine for me. > >> -- > >> regards, Maciej Suszko. > >> > > > > What is the wireless chipset of your machine ? > > On mine nx7300 it is broadcom one and works fine via ndis. > Suspend/resume works fine if second core is disabled and vesa is > loaded in kernel > (either via kldload or via custom kernel) > Firewire and bluetooth are supported and should work without problems. > Ethernet works via if_bfe; carbus, drm, sound works fine ... > In short everything is supported on UP kernel except winmodem. > > There are some bugs in BIOS asl which I fixed adding: > > acpi_dsdt_load="YES" > acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi.aml" > > in /boot/loader.conf > > /boot/acpi.aml is modified version of ASL which address "temperature > is absurd, ignored" > type of messages. > > > 8.0 CURRENT i386. On 7.0, 7.1 and 7-STABLE there is still a little bit annoying message in dmesg on my nx7300, but i it's harmless as I suppose: acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C) -- regards, Maciej Suszko.
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