Re: FreeBSD release Acer Aspire 5735Z

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 07:40:53PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Friday, October 28, 2011 a las 07:05:33PM +0400, ???????? ?????????????? escribió:
> 
> > Hello!
> > I Irek Sadykov, I write to You from Russia. 
> > 
> > I'm the owner of a laptop, which has these characteristics:
> > Acer ASPIRE 5735Z-322G25Mn (Pentium Dual-Core T3200 2000 Mhz/15.6"/1366x768/2048Mb/250.0Gb/DVD-RW/Wi-Fi/Win Vista HP).
> > 
> > I wonder what kind of a FreeBSD release will be stable work in this laptop?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> As you own the laptop already, try to boot a recent Knoppix live DVD to
> see what chips are in the box exactly; than check if drivers are
> available, esp. for graphic and Wifi;

And cross your fingers that the button to enable / disable wireless
works out of the box. Unfortunately there's no port of Linux' acer_acpi
[1] to FreeBSD. 

[1] http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/

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