Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-23 Thread Greg Troxel
I tried installing NetBSD 3.0 as well, but it couldn't find any disks to install to. In my T60, I set disk controller to legacy, which makes it look like PIIX rather than AHCI. Doesn't work at all or barely: suspend/resume, WLAN, SD reader, fingerprint reader. wlan is intel? I have ath(

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-23 Thread Michael Widerkrantz
David Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo or ThinkPad > laptops? I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X60s running FreeBSD 6.1. See: http://hack.org/mc/freebsd-x60.html Very short version: Usable after PXE boot and installation: both cores are

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-19 Thread Sevan / Venture37
I was googling around for some info on my ThinkPad T20 today & came across a wikipedia article on the ThinkPad's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad >From the trivia section: "The ThinkPad is the most popular laptop of developers of the open source operating system OpenBSD, and the X40 is one of

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-19 Thread David Chapman
Looks like plans might change. I've been looking at some HP laptops and I'm impressed with the bang for buck ratio. I am considering the dv9013ca, English, the nx6325, English, or the dv5117ca, English. Anybody have any experience with these? Will the amd64 port of NetBSD work? Will it work wi

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-18 Thread Peter Seebach
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Chapm an writes: >Looks like it'll be the A31. Does this require iwi(4) and the >iwi-firmware? My A31p has worked with plain old wi(4). -s

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-18 Thread David Chapman
* David Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-16 15:02]: > * David Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-15 17:14]: > > Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo or ThinkPad > > laptops? > > > Thanks for all the replies! > > I am looking at perhaps a A31 or R51 or R52, T30 perhaps. I h

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-17 Thread STeve Andre'
On Friday 17 November 2006 02:20, Zoong PHAM wrote: > On Thursday, 16 November 2006 at 16:17:16 -0700, Rick Kelly wrote: > > Stay away from the T30. They have a lot of motherboard and disk > > failures. > > Oops, I am about to buy a 2nd hand T30 to run OBSD-4.0. > I currently have a X24 and it work

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-17 Thread z0mbix
On 16/11/06, Rick Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Chapman said: >I am looking at perhaps a A31 or R51 or R52, T30 perhaps. I have been >looking at http://laptopcloseout.ca/canada/store.html in their IBM >section. Stay away from the T30. They have a lot of motherboard and disk failures.

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-16 Thread Zoong PHAM
On Thursday, 16 November 2006 at 16:17:16 -0700, Rick Kelly wrote: > > Stay away from the T30. They have a lot of motherboard and disk > failures. Oops, I am about to buy a 2nd hand T30 to run OBSD-4.0. I currently have a X24 and it works beautifully with 3.8 But the X24 lacks of a serial port so

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-16 Thread Rick Kelly
David Chapman said: >I am looking at perhaps a A31 or R51 or R52, T30 perhaps. I have been >looking at http://laptopcloseout.ca/canada/store.html in their IBM >section. Stay away from the T30. They have a lot of motherboard and disk failures. -- Rick Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-16 Thread David Chapman
* David Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-15 17:14]: > Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo or ThinkPad > laptops? > Thanks for all the replies! I am looking at perhaps a A31 or R51 or R52, T30 perhaps. I have been looking at http://laptopcloseout.ca/canada/store.html in the

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-16 Thread Ajitabh Pandey
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:38 +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > David Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo or ThinkPad > > laptops? > IBM thinkpad R50e (PIV centrino, 1GB, 60GB, DVD+RW). Currently runs Ubuntu Dapper. Ran OpenBSD 3.9 fr

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-16 Thread David Newman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Troxel wrote: > Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo or ThinkPad > laptops? > > On most Thinkpads (Lenovo or IBM - I have seen no real changes), BSD > runs fine. I or friends have had good experiences with > > 760ED >

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-16 Thread Greg Troxel
Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo or ThinkPad laptops? On most Thinkpads (Lenovo or IBM - I have seen no real changes), BSD runs fine. I or friends have had good experiences with 760ED 600 600E T22 T30 T42 T43(p) X31 R51 I know have a T60, and it is b

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-16 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
David Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo or ThinkPad > laptops? My Thinkpad R60 works fine with OpenBSD (recent -current). The only thing I can find wrong with it is the wpi (wifi) card which needs a you to manually fetch a blob and du

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-15 Thread Brad Miele
FreeBSD on a HP nc6230. Issues with acpi/thermal, will shutdown when going from power to battery. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2005-September/001935.html Other than that, it works great. Brad - Brad Miele VP Technology IPNStock.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] On W

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-15 Thread George Hartzell
Stacey Roberts writes: > Hello Doug, > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Doug Fordham wrote: > > > OBSD, Kubuntu, and XP on a ThinkPad T41 > > > > > > On 11/15/06, David Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo or ThinkPad > > >laptop

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-15 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello Doug, On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Doug Fordham wrote: > OBSD, Kubuntu, and XP on a ThinkPad T41 > > > On 11/15/06, David Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo or ThinkPad > >laptops? > > FreeBSD on ThinkPad T21, R51e, T43. Regards, S

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-15 Thread Doug Fordham
OBSD, Kubuntu, and XP on a ThinkPad T41 On 11/15/06, David Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo or ThinkPad > laptops? > > Thanks, > > -- > David Chapman| "tar is not a plaything" > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-15 Thread Marcus Eskilsson
I switched from running GNU/Linux to OpenBSD 4.0 on my ThinkPad R52. Works like a charm. I can't find a thing to complain about. 2006/11/15, David Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo or ThinkPad > laptops? > > Thanks, > > -- > David Chapman

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-15 Thread David Chapman
Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo or ThinkPad laptops? Thanks, -- David Chapman| "tar is not a plaything" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-15 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
I am currently using HP nx6310; after the initial problem with npx freezing when MULTIPROCESSOR is on, I an reasonably happy with it. The wireless (wpi) works (but not with wpa_supplicant for me), the Ethernet (bce) as well (I just have to disconnect the power supply for a moment when reboot

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:10:31 + "Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi BSD people > > First of all, apologies for cross-posting but I'm looking to buy a new > laptop and simultaneously learning to run a flavour of BSD on it. I've some > experience with Linux, so I'm not a total n00b, bu

Re: BSD laptop

2006-11-14 Thread Jaye Mathisen
With the exception of the AMD64 requirement, I use Fujitsu laptops extensively, running Linux, FreeBSD, and XP. They are good solid machines, and you will be happy. STR seems solid, I never use suspend to disk. My current sitch is that I use XP, with vmware for FreeBSD and linux, so I have not d

BSD laptop

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi BSD people First of all, apologies for cross-posting but I'm looking to buy a new laptop and simultaneously learning to run a flavour of BSD on it. I've some experience with Linux, so I'm not a total n00b, but I haven't really done much "in-depth" with any BSD. I would like to know what laptop