Least supported laptop for FreeBSD under $1k

[Josh Rivel]

Warner-

M. Warner Losh wrote...
> So what's the least supported by FreeBSD modern laptop under $1k?  I'm
> looking for one that has bad interrupt routing, resource conflict
> issues or pccard/cardbus problems.  I'm not counting 'sound doesn't
> work' or 'modem doens't work' as least supported for these purposes.

My IBM Thinkpad R32 works fine under FreeBSD/5.2-beta.  I paid $950
for it new on ebay.  Only thing that doesn't seem to work (or maybe
I just haven't figured it out yet) is suspend & resume.  Closing
the lid brings this message:

acpi0: Sleep state S1 not supported by BIOS

Also, if I don't do a cold boot from WinXP into FreeBSD, once I start
X the machine will hang and I need to remove the battery.  If I do a
cold boot, it works fine (Had the same symptoms with both OpenBSD
-current and Debian Linux unstable)

I have not tried USB support with it however, so I can't speak to how
that works.  Audio works fine, and my old-school Wavelan card works
great.

So I'd say that's a sub-$1k notebook that works well with FreeBSD.

laptop:~> uname -a
FreeBSD laptop.freek 5.2-BETA FreeBSD 5.2-BETA #0: Sat Dec  6 23:15:20 EST 2003     dorqus at laptop.freek:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP  i386

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josh