is there a laptop ?

[Chris Whitehouse]

Saifi Khan wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
> ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
> 
> Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
> members would like to recommend wherein 
>  . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
>  . Ethernet port 
>  . and ACPI 
> work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
> 
> 
> thanks
> Saifi.
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HP nc6320 (google RH383ET) - most things work, including wifi and 
ethernet, except for the following:

- gives a repeated message like acpi_tz0 absurd value ignoring
- dmesg shows dvd drive errors on each boot and later hald-addon-storage 
  will start using 100%cpu till it is killed (I think they are connected 
but haven't really investigated)
- with FreeBSD (latest PCBSD) cpu fan comes on more than it did with 
windows and battery doesn't last as long
- haven't tested suspend/resume or internal modem.
- don't think the finger print reader or the card reader are recognised.
- build quality is probably not as good as the IBM's

Sorry not to give exact messages, I'm at a different machine but I can 
give you dmesg etc later if required.

Chris

PS don't buy from laptopsdirect.co.uk unless you want to get spammed 
from them and various associated online shops.