is there a laptop ?

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 12:28:57 PDT 2009


On 3/12/09, Maciej Suszko <maciej at suszko.eu> wrote:
> "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan at twincling.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote:
>> >
>> >> Saifi Khan <saifi.khan at twincling.org> wrote:
>> >> > Hi all:
>> >> >
>> >> > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
>> >> > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
>> >> >
>> >> > Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
>> >> > members would like to recommend wherein
>> >> >  . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
>> >> >  . Ethernet port
>> >> >  . and ACPI
>> >> > work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
>> >>
>> >> I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried
>> >> the suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not
>> >> going to work. Everything else is working fine for me.
>> >> --
>> >> regards, Maciej Suszko.
>> >>
>> >
>> > What is the wireless chipset of your machine ?
>>
>> On mine nx7300 it is broadcom one and works fine via ndis.
>> Suspend/resume works fine if second core is disabled and vesa is
>> loaded in kernel
>> (either via kldload or via custom kernel)
>> Firewire and bluetooth are supported and should work without problems.
>> Ethernet works via if_bfe; carbus, drm, sound works fine ...
>> In short everything is supported on UP kernel except winmodem.
>>
>> There are some bugs in BIOS asl which I fixed adding:
>>
>> acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
>> acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi.aml"
>>
>> in /boot/loader.conf
>>
>> /boot/acpi.aml is modified version of ASL which address "temperature
>> is absurd, ignored"
>> type of messages.
>>
>>
>> 8.0 CURRENT i386.
>
> On 7.0, 7.1 and 7-STABLE there is still a little bit annoying message
> in dmesg on my nx7300, but i it's harmless as I suppose:
> acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C)

Not for me, it caused livelocks in syscons while using powerd (h)adp mode,
making entire session useless and forcing me to reboot machine.

-- 
Paul


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