Experience with Dell Latitude D620?

[Eric Anderson]

On 10/25/06 13:19, Doug Barton wrote:
> After a long (and sometimes ugly) ordeal with a few other 
> manufacturers, I finally decided on a Dell Latitude D620, which is 
> sitting here next to me. It has the new Core 2 Duo, and lots of other 
> exciting bells and whistles. :) The only negative so far is the 3945 
> wireless, but I have an atheros pccard to use in the meantime.
> 
> I'm wondering what experiences people have with this, gotchas for 
> FreeBSD, etc. I am planning to dual boot windows and -current. I am 
> particularly interested in being able to suspend/resume in freebsd, so 
> if anyone has got that working, please share the secrets. Also, has 
> anyone with a core 2 duo tried running the 64 bit freebsd?


Doug - my coworker has lots of Atheros mini-pci express wifi cards that 
he's been selling for cheap.  I have been using it instead of the 
included card, and am very happy.  You can email him at 
kramer at centtech.com if you want.

Eric


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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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