Re: [PLUG] Need suggestion to run freebsd on Lenovo Thinkpad e460

2017-01-05 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:36 PM, Anonymous Someone < amarendra.godb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Sudhanwa! It's exciting to be back on PLUG - I have so many > fond memories of this group. > > macOS for office and OpenBSD on personal laptop are my BSD distros. > Debian for Linux. Windows when thin

Re: [PLUG] Need suggestion to run freebsd on Lenovo Thinkpad e460

2017-01-05 Thread Anonymous Someone
Thanks Sudhanwa! It's exciting to be back on PLUG - I have so many fond memories of this group. macOS for office and OpenBSD on personal laptop are my BSD distros. Debian for Linux. Windows when things won't work on either. Thanks. -ag On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote:

Re: [PLUG] Need suggestion to run freebsd on Lenovo Thinkpad e460

2017-01-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Nice to see you back on the list Amarendra !! I was not sure if you will be responding to the BSD help. What is your current BSD distro? Regards -Sudhanwa On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:41 PM, Anonymous Someone < amarendra.godb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 5:08 AM, Pritam Dulam >

Re: [PLUG] Need suggestion to run freebsd on Lenovo Thinkpad e460

2017-01-03 Thread Anonymous Someone
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 5:08 AM, Pritam Dulam wrote: > > Hi, > I planning to buy a Lenovo Thinkpad e460. I have read few post on wifi not > working on laptops. What WiFi adapter/chipset does *this* ThinkPad E460 use? "WiFi not working on laptops" is a pretty broad and sweeping statement, and wit

Re: [PLUG] Need suggestion to run freebsd on Lenovo Thinkpad e460

2017-01-03 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Pritam Dulam wrote: | I planning to buy a Lenovo Thinkpad e460. I have read few post on wifi not | working on laptops. \-- I use a Lenovo Thinkpad E460 with Parabola GNU/Linux Libre [1] and a USB dongle (cdc_ether). Wi-Fi does work with most *nix distrib

Re: [PLUG] Need suggestion to run freebsd on Lenovo Thinkpad e460

2016-12-29 Thread Amey Abhyankar
On 29 December 2016 at 21:08, Pritam Dulam wrote: > Hi, > I planning to buy a Lenovo Thinkpad e460. I have read few post on wifi not > working on laptops. > > Could someone help me confirm if freebsd > Which version? > runs fine on this model. So that I can buy it. > > Thanks, > Pritam > > __

Re: [PLUG] Need suggestion to run freebsd on Lenovo Thinkpad e460

2016-12-29 Thread Venu Chakravorty
Hi Pritam, Personally I think FreeBSD is great if you want to go really under the hood and spend hours or even days configuring your system. The following links should give you something to go on: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops https://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/hardware.html Check the release not

[PLUG] Need suggestion to run freebsd on Lenovo Thinkpad e460

2016-12-29 Thread Pritam Dulam
Hi, I planning to buy a Lenovo Thinkpad e460. I have read few post on wifi not working on laptops. Could someone help me confirm if freebsd runs fine on this model. So that I can buy it. Thanks, Pritam ___ plug-mail mailing list plug-mail@plug.org.in ht