FreeBSD & HP Laptop?

[Bob]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 06:36 +0000, Marwan Sultan wrote: 
> Hello everyone,
> 
>   I recently bought HP laptop dv5178us Media Center
>   It has builtin BlueTooth, wireless network device, lightscribe, and the 
> VGA is
>   nVIDIA GeForce GO 7400 512mb, s-video, some others 2,
>   I'm not sure from motherboard specs,
>   I want to format the XP media center edition and install FreeBSD 6.1R with 
> kde3
> 
> I wonder if someone can advice me and tell, if this specifications is 
> compatiable with freebsd
> or not, or if i will have any problems with any devices drivers?
> 
> I have a button on my keyboard that if pressed will turn the bluetooth and 
> wireless network on
> and off, is this will work to with fbsd 6.1?
> 
> I'm sorry If i will take from someone time to check my specs.
> 
> Here is a link may help.
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocumentcc=us&docname=c00619266&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
> 
> its the specs for the laptop.
> 
> Thank you so much in advance.
> 
>   Marwan Sultan.
> 

Maybe this gets you started:
http://www.zapatec.com/freebsd/laptop/
http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile
http://bsdlaptops.org/freebsd/fbsd.php

Bob