Re: FreeBSD 6.1 on the ThinkPad X60s
James O'Gorman <[email protected]>
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Forgot to Reply-all... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 on the ThinkPad X60s Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 19:50:04 +0100 From: James O'Gorman <[email protected]> To: Chris Howells <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Chris Howells wrote: > James O'Gorman wrote: > >> I just got my ThinkPad X60s (model 17045LG) and thought I'd post my >> results so people know what works and what doesn't. > > Thanks for the post; I'm currently running Linux on mine, mainly due to > the lack of wireless. Does the wireless work under Linux then? I was thinking about trying the Ubuntu live CD to see. >> * Dual-core CPU > > Does CPU speed scaling work with both cores? How do you check that? (This is my first non-Mac laptop...) > Also, does sound work? I've just got GNOME installed and I can't get esd to run at all, so I'm guessing not. I've tried kldloading every sound module there is! Unless it needs one that isn't built by default... >> It only works with >6.0 though. I tried installing 6.0-RELEASE and >> sysinstall couldn't even see the hard disk. 6.1-RC2 had no problem >> though. > > I guess the SATA controller is quite new. Looks that way. >> Wireless does not, of course, work, as it's the Intel 3945ABG chip. >> Can't even get it working using if_ndis at the moment :-( > > Annoying. I might have a go myself. Have you got it switched on with the > switch underneath? Definitely ;-) I've been flipping between Windows and FreeBSD and the wireless is fine in XP. >> Not sure about bluetooth at the moment as I've never actually set it up >> in FreeBSD before anyway, so I might play with that. > > The Bluetooth is simply attached to USB bus (universal serial bus bus?), > so it should work the same as pretty much any USB bluetooth device. I'll try and have a play with it later, but for now, the light under the screen is off for both wireless and Bluetooth... James _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"