Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-22 Thread Da Rock
On 02/23/12 11:57, Da Rock wrote: On 02/23/12 08:33, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:31:10 +1000 Da Rock articulated: The most annoying for me was when they're running Win7 (blah!) and I was trying to burn a cd _and_ keep the kids from interrupting by playing on the keyboard. I closed the

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-22 Thread Da Rock
On 02/23/12 08:33, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:31:10 +1000 Da Rock articulated: The most annoying for me was when they're running Win7 (blah!) and I was trying to burn a cd _and_ keep the kids from interrupting by playing on the keyboard. I closed the lid like I do with FBSD and it susp

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-22 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:31:10 +1000 Da Rock articulated: > The most annoying for me was when they're running Win7 (blah!) and I > was trying to burn a cd _and_ keep the kids from interrupting by > playing on the keyboard. I closed the lid like I do with FBSD and it > suspended! Grr! That behavior

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-21 Thread Da Rock
On 02/22/12 09:19, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:44:08 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 02/22/12 01:44, Polytropon wrote: Today's problems seem to be suspend/resume/hibernate (all the variations of "it's not switched on, but also not switched off entirely") and some specific sorts of wireles

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-21 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:44:08 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 02/22/12 01:44, Polytropon wrote: > > Today's problems seem to be suspend/resume/hibernate (all > > the variations of "it's not switched on, but also not > > switched off entirely") and some specific sorts of wireless > > devices. > I've never

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-21 Thread Da Rock
On 02/22/12 01:44, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:45:05 +1000, Da Rock wrote: To the OP, check the pages Polytropon has linked here, but the chances of getting exactly that are nil to impossible. I've run about 6 or more laptops now without too much trouble. The biggest problems were w

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-21 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:45:05 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > To the OP, check the pages Polytropon has linked here, but the chances > of getting exactly that are nil to impossible. I've run about 6 or more > laptops now without too much trouble. The biggest problems were > wireless, but that was the bad

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-20 Thread Da Rock
you either tell me which hardware are suitable or a link to a compatibility list? Check the hardware compatibility list to find out which devices are compatible to FreeBSD, also see the release notes regarding version 9.0 of the OS. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/hardware.

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-20 Thread Polytropon
me which hardware are suitable or a link to a > compatibility list? Check the hardware compatibility list to find out which devices are compatible to FreeBSD, also see the release notes regarding version 9.0 of the OS. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/hardware.html http://www.freebsd.org/re

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 05:35:43PM +0100, Riccardo Garzelli wrote: > Dear Information service > > I was thinking of purchasing a new laptop and I wanted to go for FreeBSD > OS. Unfortunately I'm no brainer in Unix so I'd like to find a PC that can > run FreeBSD 9.0 out of the box. The best way to

Hardware compatibility

2012-02-20 Thread Riccardo Garzelli
Dear Information service I was thinking of purchasing a new laptop and I wanted to go for FreeBSD OS. Unfortunately I'm no brainer in Unix so I'd like to find a PC that can run FreeBSD 9.0 out of the box. Could you either tell me which hardware are suitable or a link to a compatibility list? Thank

Hardware Compatibility

2010-05-06 Thread David emmel
Hello all, I have a quick question about server hardware compatibility. We're looking to buy a replacement server and the HP ProLiant DL320 G6 E5502 was listed as a possible option. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06b/15351-15351-3328412-241644-241475-3929672-3942218-3942219

Re: About FreeBSD hardware compatibility?

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
ebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/index.html http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_bsd.html In addition, the RELEASE notes section for each release of FreeBSD contains pages or hardware com

Re: About FreeBSD hardware compatibility?

2009-01-18 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 23:53 -0700, Tim Judd wrote: > aaron lewis wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a freebsd lovers , i wonna install fbsd7.1 to my laptop (IBM > > Thinkpad R400 a18). > > There's no available informations on laptop compatibility lists. So do you > > have any solutions to make a quick c

Re: About FreeBSD hardware compatibility?

2009-01-18 Thread Tim Judd
aaron lewis wrote: Hi, I'm a freebsd lovers , i wonna install fbsd7.1 to my laptop (IBM Thinkpad R400 a18). There's no available informations on laptop compatibility lists. So do you have any solutions to make a quick check if everything will work? I know Solaris has a Install_check tool w

About FreeBSD hardware compatibility?

2009-01-18 Thread aaron lewis
Hi, I'm a freebsd lovers , i wonna install fbsd7.1 to my laptop (IBM Thinkpad R400 a18). There's no available informations on laptop compatibility lists. So do you have any solutions to make a quick check if everything will work? I know Solaris has a Install_check tool which will give a list

hardware compatibility question: intel e7200 + foxconn g31mg-s mobo

2008-11-19 Thread freebsd
After having been burned with an AMD cpu/mobo combination that wouldn't run 6.x reliabably which I consequently had to sell, I'm going to ask first. My search of the archives (questions and hardware) came up empty, but that seems likely given that both say their archive index was last updated c

Re: Hardware compatibility question

2008-01-03 Thread Jack Barnett
Eric Crist wrote: On Jan 3, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge 2650. It has (2) Xeon 2.8Ghz with 512kb cache 6 GB ECC Ram (5) 36 GB 10k SCSI hard drives Perc/3 raid controller. dual 10/100/1000 ethernet dual power supplies. will I ha

Re: Hardware compatibility question

2008-01-03 Thread Eric Crist
On Jan 3, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge 2650. It has (2) Xeon 2.8Ghz with 512kb cache 6 GB ECC Ram (5) 36 GB 10k SCSI hard drives Perc/3 raid controller. dual 10/100/1000 ethernet dual power supplies. will I have any problem usin

Re: Hardware compatibility question

2008-01-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:29:44PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Greetings, > I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge 2650. It has > (2) Xeon 2.8Ghz with 512kb cache > 6 GB ECC Ram > (5) 36 GB 10k SCSI hard drives > Perc/3 raid controller. > dual 10/100/1000 ethernet > dual power supplies. >

Hardware compatibility question

2008-01-03 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge 2650. It has (2) Xeon 2.8Ghz with 512kb cache 6 GB ECC Ram (5) 36 GB 10k SCSI hard drives Perc/3 raid controller. dual 10/100/1000 ethernet dual power supplies. will I have any problem using Freebsd on this hardware ? Going to be LAMP server

Re: RFC: Free Software Hardware Compatibility - Centralised DB

2004-06-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 09:03, Joel Rees wrote: > > ... > > ASSUMPTION: > > ... > > We assume that it is in the best interests of each Free Software > > Unix-like operating system distribution, each kernel (eg. Linux, *BSD, > > HURD) and in the best interests of the end users, to have a > > centrali

Re: RFC: Free Software Hardware Compatibility - Centralised DB

2004-06-11 Thread Joel Rees
(Apologies in advance --) On 2004.6.11, at 06:31 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: PLEASE NOTE: * Please do not reply-all Sorry, when you break the rules, the rules are broken. However, ... ASSUMPTION: ... We assume that it is in the best interests of each Free Software Unix-like operating system distribu

RFC: Free Software Hardware Compatibility - Centralised DB

2004-06-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
is as appropriate (namely to those involved in hardware compatibility, certification, driver development, and/ or manufacture, as it relates to our free software community). ASSUMPTION: We in the free software community wish to have better and more up to date hardware identification and su

Re: FW: freebsd 3.5 Hardware compatibility

2004-03-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:01:27PM -0500, Dwight Spence wrote: > > Also what is the compatibility with FreeBSD 3.5 and the following CD-ROM devices: Ah -- archaic CD Rom devices. That explains the interest in the old version of the OS. > Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative CD-ROM http://www.

Re: freebsd 3.5 Hardware compatibility

2004-03-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:23:39AM -0500, Dwight Spence wrote: > Could you provide me some information if FreeBSD 3.5 will run on a PC? > > Intel (R) Pentium > ® $CPU 2.40 GHZ > AT/AT Compatible > > 1,048,048 KB RAM That's not nearly detailed enough information. You should compare the disk co

FW: freebsd 3.5 Hardware compatibility

2004-03-31 Thread Dwight Spence
reebsd 3.5 Hardware compatibility Could you provide me some information if FreeBSD 3.5 will run on a PC? Intel (R) Pentium ® $CPU 2.40 GHZ AT/AT Compatible 1,048,048 KB RAM ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

freebsd 3.5 Hardware compatibility

2004-03-31 Thread Dwight Spence
Could you provide me some information if FreeBSD 3.5 will run on a PC? Intel (R) Pentium ® $CPU 2.40 GHZ AT/AT Compatible 1,048,048 KB RAM ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

hardware compatibility

2004-03-29 Thread ritwik das
hi, i have a intel875 motherboard,and sata raid drives(serial hardware raid). plz tell me wheather i can configure this in freebsd 5.2.1(i386). thanks & regards Ritwik Das. - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. _

Re: Hardware Compatibility List

2003-12-19 Thread Mike Maltese
> Dear Project People: > Last Spring I purchased the BSD Mall software FreeBSD 5.0 from a local > computer store. I would like to determine what hardware is compatible with > this OS. Is there a set of 'White Papers', or a Hardware Compatibility List > that can

Hardware Compatibility List

2003-12-19 Thread Frank Walder
Dear Project People: Last Spring I purchased the BSD Mall software FreeBSD 5.0 from a local computer store. I would like to determine what hardware is compatible with this OS. Is there a set of 'White Papers', or a Hardware Compatibility List that can be viewed in up