HP Stream 13 and FreeBSD?

[John McDonnell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- 
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Don Harper
> Sent: Sunday, November 8, 2015 10:19 AM
> To: Arthur Chance
> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions
> Subject: Re: HP Stream 13 and FreeBSD?
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> I have tried on a HP Stream 11, but the CPU is a Skyline, and lots of 
> things do not show up.  Like, the internal storage.  There is a PR up 
> for it, but I have not checked in recently.
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> Even under Linux, support is dodgy at best for the WiFi.
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> I would love to help getting it going, so feel free to reach out to me 
> for testing.  I do not know enough at this point to start trying to fix things, yet.
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> Thanks!
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> don
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> Don Harper, RHCE
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>  ---- On Sun, 08 Nov 2015 09:10:43 -0600 Arthur Chance 
> <freebsd at qeng- ho.org> wrote ----
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> Has anyone managed to get FBSD running on an HP Stream 13? Google only
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> turns up attempts to install Linux.
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Bah, Outlook is a PITA. Didn't notice it sent directly to Don instead of to the list, sorry about that. Reposting this to the list:

I have access to a bunch of Stream 11 Pros (the rather nice looking grey model produced for education) that is apparently even stranger than the normal Stream 11s. I have not tried putting BSD on it yet (struggling with the PITA of getting Windows 8.1 running on a mere 32GB along with some extra software for our teachers right now) but I can do some tests if needed.

I also have a Stream 13 for myself that I tossed Windows 10 on just to see what it is like. (I accidentally deleted my backup of Windows 8.1 for my Stream 13 as well.) I would like to look into getting FreeBSD running on my Stream 13, but just haven't had the time.

If I get a chance to look into either of these I'll let you know what I find out, or if there's something specific you want me to look at, I can try and find some spare time to do that.

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John McDonnell
Penn Cambria School District
mcdonnjd at pcam.org