Re: A30p BIOS updates?
"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
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> From: "Jesse D. Guardiani" <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 18:40:17 -0400 > Sender: [email protected] > > Howdy list, > > I know a bunch of you have IBM Thinkpads. I just bought an A30p myself. > Before I put FreeBSD on it, I have the option to download a butt-load of > updates, including a BIOS update. > > Should I go for it? I heard the most recent BIOS update doesn't do much for > ACPI support under FreeBSD... but is the BIOS version I have right now > broken too? Jesse, Yes. There are a number of problems that are fixed in more recent BIOSes from IBM, especially the APM stuff works much better with a recent BIOS. I have seen no regression with the latest BIOS, but YMMV. You probably also want to get the latest PCDoctorDOS update. It does hardware diagnostics and comes as a group of floppy images. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"