FreeBSD Motherboard survey...

[Philip Hallstrom]

> On Nov 21, 2003, at 9:53 AM, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>
> > Hi all -
> >
> > So... I wrote a survey app that I'm hoping lots of you will fill out.
> > It let's you pick the brand/model of motherboard, then indicate what
> > onboard features work (lan, audio, video, usb, firewire, ide, sata,
> > scsi, raid, smp), lets you provide some overall "satisfaction"
> > ratings, and then provide any additional comments.
> >
> > As a side effect you can input your laptop information which seems to
> > be a frequently asked source of questions.
> >
> > If I get enough responses I'd like to expand this to include other
> > things such as DVD players, USB peripherals, etc. that have varying
> > levels of support in FreeBSD.  Perhaps turn it into a companion to the
> > HARDWARE.TXT document...
> >
> > Anyway.. here it is:
> >
> > http://www.eilio.com/freebsd-motherboards/
> >
>
> This is very nice, and I think it will be helpful to a lot of people
> who want to move to FreeBSD. I especially like the idea of laptop users
> being able to contribute. This is a topic that has come up many times
> on the mobile@ list and I think a structured form where components can
> be detailed (works/broken) is a great idea.

I'm glad you like it.  And thanks for cc'ing the mobile group.  Completely
spaced on that.

If any of you have any comments on other features you'd like to see
(infrared just came to mind) please by all means send me an email with
your thoughts.  I've got pretty limited hardware and haven't used FreeBSD
on a laptop ever so might be missing things.

I'd love for this to take off and become a repository of sorts...

-philip