Re: FreeBSD on Sony or Dell? Or stick with Toshiba?
hans <[email protected]>
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hi try samsung X05 1400 series.. works flawlessly with FBSDCurrent, you'll get the built in intel (centrino chip) wlan to work with ndis, pcmcia is fine. cardbus trouble solved, too. the description about this machine on http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops is outdated. works fine now. hans On 16-May-2004 Thomas Lippert wrote: > On Sat May 15 21:25:15 2004 Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've been happily running FreeBSD on a P2-266 Toshiba for several years now. >> I'm thinking of upgrading by getting something on ebay. >> >> I love the look and lightness of Sony Vaios, but I'd like to make sure which >> models are best for FreeBSD. If none, I'd consider a Dell. Or, am I better >> off with Toshiba, which has been known to be 'other OS friendly'? > I am using the vaio grx-560 not very light, but everything that i want > to use is working. things i haven't tried are the on board modem, and > memory card slot. acpi seems fine, sound is working well (much better > than it was on Linux) cardbus is functioning. Though if you are looking > for something to lug around this laptop is really more of a desktop ;-) > If you haven't already check out > http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ between those three brands > there seem to be upwards of fifty represented. >> >> >> jm > > -Thomas > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" -- ---------------------------------- E-Mail: hans <[email protected]> Date: 16-May-2004 Time: 11:55:21 ---------------------------------- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"