A30p BIOS updates?

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse at wingnet.net>
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 18:40:17 -0400
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> Howdy list,
> 
> I know a bunch of you have IBM Thinkpads. I just bought an A30p myself.
> Before I put FreeBSD on it, I have the option to download a butt-load of
> updates, including a BIOS update.
> 
> Should I go for it? I heard the most recent BIOS update doesn't do much for
> ACPI support under FreeBSD... but is the BIOS version I have right now
> broken too?

Jesse,

Yes. There are a number of problems that are fixed in more recent BIOSes
from IBM, especially the APM stuff works much better with a recent
BIOS. I have seen no regression with the latest BIOS, but YMMV.

You probably also want to get the latest PCDoctorDOS update. It does
hardware diagnostics and comes as a group of floppy images.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634