Re: is there a laptop ?
Frank Shute <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:31:41AM +0000, Saifi Khan wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Takashi Inoue wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use > > > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. > > > > > > Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced > > > members would like to recommend wherein > > > . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based) > > > . Ethernet port . and ACPI > > > work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ? > > > > If you want to use ACPI suspend/resume, > > you need to kill one of two core in Core2Duo. > > If you want the both, choose Linux insted. > > > > Cheers, > > T. I. > > > > Are you saying that ACPI implementation in FreeBSD is buggy ? > > Do you have any suggestions about laptops to make (assuming ACPI > is disabled) ? > You can still use ACPI, it's just that suspend/resume might not work. If you use ACPI then you can run powerd(8) which will prolong battery life. I bought a Dell XPS1330 on which everything seems to work on 7.1-R; even the fingerprint reader can be made to work (can't remember the port to use). I don't use powerd as I usually have the laptop plugged in. BTW, I've got an old Thinkpad and I much prefer the Trackpoint to the Dell's Touchpad, YMMV. So my advice is to look at the Thinkpads. A lot of BSD users use them & their hardware is well supported by FreeBSD, I believe. > > thanks > Saifi. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"