FreeBSD vs eMachines M6805 part II

[Sean Welch]

Too bad about the sleep modes.  Mine won't resume properly from
s3, but that is a bios issue (I upgraded the graphics card in
my I8K for better performance with DRI).

How is the battery life?

That ndis wrapper is pretty amazing; glad it works for you!

Sean

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:54:45PM -0500, Chris Faulhaber wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 06:40:47AM -0600, Sean Welch wrote:
> > Also, do the sleep modes work for you?
> > 
> 
> Not really.  Most modes are not supported:
> 
>   acpi0: Sleep state S1 not supported by BIOS
> 
> The laptop appears to suspend ok but does not resume well.  It
> seems to power back up but the system does not return.
> 
> > "project evil" may help you with the wireless chipset.
> > 
> 
> Heh, I forgot about Project Evil.  Yep, the ndis wrapper works
> well.  Pure Evil.
> 
>   ndis0: <Broadcom 54g MaxPerformance 802.11g> mem 0xd0000000-0xd0001fff irq 10 at device 12.0 on pci0
>   ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
>   ndis0: 802.11 address: 00:90:96:80:6c:d9
>   ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
>   ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
>   ndis0: link up
> 
> -- 
> Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar at fxp.org - jedgar at FreeBSD.org
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