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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > > 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.. > > Do you have an up-to-date BIOS? I had some problems booting from USB > that I could solve using the latest BIOS version. >
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
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