Thinkpad T440p and T540p

[Stefan Wendler]

Today the notebook arrived. Unfortunately the onboard ports for the expansion cards have a different layout. That means that I cannot replace the wifi card with my old one. Therefore I'm currently switching to Gentoo in the hope that it won't take too long until the 7260 drivers are ported over to FreeBSD.

Kind of sad greeting,
Stefan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian at freebsd.org>
To: "Stefan Wendler" <stefan.wendler at tngtech.com>
Cc: "isdtor" <isdtor at gmail.com>, freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 7:18:23 PM
Subject: Re: Thinkpad T440p and T540p

Haswell won't be in freebsd-10.1.

The moment it's done and dusted, you'll know.

(Same as the 7260 driver.)



-a


On 7 October 2014 00:36, Stefan Wendler <stefan.wendler at tngtech.com> wrote:
> I adopted and loved gentoo from the very beginning. And it still would be my goto distro, if I would have to switch. But Linux in general feels very messy to me (This is not a rant, just my personal feeling).
> On my T530 FreeBSD was running stellar. UMTS, WLAN, sound, docking, multiple monitors, eve online in wine, you name it. Everything worked. And out of the box, too. So I kind of liked my T530 very much and wanted to keep it some more years :(
> The only thing I really dislike about the T540 is the trackpad. It feels really strange. But I didn't like the T530 mouse either so there is no change ;) But I have no problem with the current keyboard etc like many others do. Most of the time it is docked and I use my Kinesis Advantage and an external mouse anyway ;)
>
> I heard in the latest BSDNow Podcast, that they are pushing Haswell stuff with FreeBSD 10.1. So I might go to a 10.1(-rc) right away when the notebook arrives.
>
> Cheers
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "isdtor" <isdtor at gmail.com>
> To: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> Sent: Monday, October 6, 2014 10:17:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Thinkpad T440p and T540p
>
> There's nothing wrong with Gentoo ;-) In fact, it works better on my
> T530 than FreeBSD. And I don't think my next laptop after that will be
> a Lenovo, their current line products are badly designed and make it
> particularily hard to run non-Windows systems since so many functions
> that were buttons or LEDs are now in software.
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