New or used laptop recommendation(s)

[Paul Dokas]

On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:19:25 -0500 Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:
>  I currently have a Latitude D820 (with the wuxga screen), and it's awesome.

I have one of these too and can agree that it's a very nice machine.  However,
I've got a few nits.

  + The audio chipset isn't found under FreeBSD 6.1.  If anyone knows how to
    get the Sigmatel STAC9200 to probe, I'd love to hear about it.

  + There are no drivers (yet) for the optional Intel 3945abg wireless.  There
    is a driver in OpenBSD that will hopefully be ported over soon.

  + I'm having some odd problems getting Cardbus wireless cards to work.  They
    act mostly as expected, but dhclient refuses to associate with any AP.  If
    I ifconfig ath0 by hand, it associated just fine.  The problem is similar
    to this:

      http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-April/010351.html


But, like I said earlier, overall I do like the Latitude D820

Paul
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Paul Dokas                                     dokas at oitsec.umn.edu
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