Re: Laptop advice
Joe Demeny wrote: I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 Does anyone have experience with these? Any suggestions for other comparable choices? From personal experience, getting a laptop to work under FreeBSD (or even Linux) is a hair pulling experience. It took me about six months of tinkering off and on to get a Broadcom(yuck!) wifi adapter to work in my HP laptop last year. In the interim, I found a work around that was about $30. I purchased a usb wifi adapter that used the rum driver. At the time, I had to run -current to get that particular driver, but I never had a problem with the computer or the adapter under -current. The most headaches I've gotten with laptops have always involved the wifi cards. Consequently, every laptop I've installed FreeBSD and Linux on had a Broadcom(yuck!) wifi chipset. Everything else has been well supported, graphics, sound, power management, pointing devices, and usb devices. I even managed to use FreeBSD to connect to the robots I had to use in one of my master's classes last year. That was pleasantly surprising. --Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet?
Jonathan Horne wrote: Well, I setup my laptop to dual boot freebsd 6.2-p4 and vista. It was actually an XP/freebsd at first (installed XP, then installed freebsd). The normal boot loader worked exactly as expected. So, upgraded the XP to vista, which seemed to go perfectly normal. Got everything the way I wanted it, and then popped in my 6.2 cd and rebooted. Went to fixit console, and did a Fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0 Rebooted, booted into freebsd fine. Rebooted again, hit F1 for DOS, and kaboom. Winboot.exe is missing! Has anyone successful configured a freebsd/vista dual boot, and if so, how did you get around this issue? Thanks, I have my laptop dualbooting Vista and FreeBSD. I did the install shortly after vista came out and at the time the FreeBSD boot loader did not boot Vista. I installed the GAG boot manager and it works like a champ. --Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
