R3000Z Laptop Status

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Monday 21 March 2005 03:08 pm, Astrodog wrote:
> Something that has struck me over the past few hours, as I've
> worked on this machine, outside of the ACPI issue, and the keyboard
> issue, which are both pretty trivial fixes at this point, this is
> one of the better supported mobile FreeBSD platforms out there.
> Internal NIC was detected fine, PCMCIA works great, sound works,
> USB works, Firewire works, hell, the cardreader seems to work....
> Not too many laptops can make that claim. If there was a way to
> automate those 2 problems away, this would be a great example for
> FreeBSD on mobile platforms.

IMO, Acer Ferrari series laptops are pretty good with FreeBSD.  
Broadcom gigabit NIC, wireless (with NDISulator), Bluetooth, card 
reader, PCCard, audio, Xorg, etc. work out of the box.

Jung-uk Kim

> --- Harrison Grundy