BSD laptop

James O'Gorman james at netinertia.co.uk
Thu Nov 23 19:31:02 UTC 2006


Michael Widerkrantz wrote:
> David Chapman <dchapman at canwest.victoria.bc.ca> writes:
> 
>> Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo or ThinkPad
>> laptops?
> 
> I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X60s running FreeBSD 6.1. See:
> 
>   http://hack.org/mc/freebsd-x60.html
> 
> Very short version:
> 
>   Usable after PXE boot and installation

Also if you have the X6 Ultrabase or a USB floppy/CD drive :-)

>   Doesn't work at all or barely: suspend/resume, WLAN, SD reader,
>   fingerprint reader.

I ended up ditching the Intel 3945ABG card and buying IBM's WLAN card
(ath(4) based). Works perfectly :-)

James


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