Re: Netbooks good for FreeBSD?
Warren Block <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Yuri wrote: > I am thinking about buying a netbook. But I am afraid that WiFi wouldn't be > supported. And all my previous attempts to make NDIS to work on FreeBSD > failed. The Atheros AR5007 (802.11b/g) works well with FreeBSD 8. That card comes with the Acer Aspire One AOA150 and I think some models of Asus netbooks. There was a Broadcom in an Acer notebook that had never worked with FreeBSD, and replacing that with another AR5007 worked fine. These mini-PCIe cards are easy to replace, at least if the physical design of the computer makes them accessible. A later model of Atheros, the AR5008X (AR5416), did not quite work with FreeBSD: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-September/011768.html > There is a page about Asus Eee: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee with > mixed results. They have a good group effort there. Some of the information applies to other brands of netbook, and it would be nice to see that expanded to cover them. > Does this mean that Asus Eee are the best supported/known machines? Possibly. The Aspire One does pretty well except for suspend/resume, and I think that's a problem with FreeBSD on most or all SMP notebooks. > I was thinking about Lenovo S10-2. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5902 > Is there a hardware compatibility list for FreeBSD? http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"