Re: APCI on old Thinkpad

Yep, Claudio is correct. I have an old 600e and this is an official statement from IBM support page long ago: *"The ThinkPad 600E is ACPI ready. ACPI is not installed, but the system hardware supports ACPI. While ACPI shows a great deal of promise for the future, numerous problems affect the opera

Mirrors down for maintenance?

Hello everyone, Is anyone else getting "ftp Connection refused" when trying to access the mirrors? I checked the announcements email archive today and didn't see anything about maintenance. I found this email chain in the archives which is exactly what I'm experiencing. https://www.mail-archive.c

Enable Edge Scrolling for ALPS Touchpad

Hello everyone, I am running OpenBSD on an HP Pavilion dm1z-2000 Notebook. I am trying to setup edge scrolling for my Alps touchpad. Here are the relevant dmesg entries for the device: "*AUI1101" at acpi0 not configured pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pms0

Re: Machine age and OpenBSD - Thinkpad R51e

Wow, thanks for all the great responses. I actually found a 2011-ish HP Notebook I had lying around. I cleaned it, new thermal paste and have it running now. The only real issue I am seeing is that the Wifi card is an Atheros (athn0) and while it does connect, I seem to be getting sporadic connecti

Machine age and OpenBSD - Thinkpad R51e

Hello everyone, I was looking to get a laptop to run OpenBSD. The one I am looking at in particular is the Thinkpad R51e (2005). I like this particular model because it does not come with any extra hardware that OpenBSD does not support in the first place (bluetooth, camera, etc.) My main concern